New Delhi: US federal police have launched an international manhunt for a recently laid-off Indian techie after his wife and two children were found slain at their residence in Novi town house area of Detroit on Monday.
The whereabouts of 42-year-old Lakshminivasa Rao Nerusu — an unemployed computer programmer — are unknown.
Police found the body of Nerusu’s wife, 37-year-old Jayalakshmi and those of his 14-year-old daughter Tejasvi and 12-year-old son Siva on the first floor of their two-storey town home on Wharton Court, after a relative of the victims reported he had not heard from the family in several days.
“There was a significant amount of trauma to the head and neck areas of each victim,” Novi Police Chief David E Molloy said at a press conference, during which he described the crime scene as “brutal” and “very disturbing.”
“The three had defensive wounds on the arms and hands as if they attempted to fend off blows,” Molloy said.
He added there was no record of police runs or domestic violence incidents regarding the Nerusu family and insisted Nerusu was only a "person of interest" at this time.
Lakshminivasa Nerusu's vehicle was recently repossessed, Molloy said.
Police believe that the killer was known to the victims as there were no signs of forced entry to the house. "The home was locked, so we believe they may have known the person who attacked them and that person locked the door afterwards," Molly added.
The tragic killings have left the local Indian community shocked.
“People are talking about the fact that this community has had a tragedy especially during Diwali days. However nobody really has an answer as to why it happened. The family seems to have moved here very recently, so there is not a whole lot of information about them,” said NIpa Shah, a member of an Indian community in Michigan.
“Obviously speculation is that because of loss of job and the hard time that the family faced, this tragedy happened,” Nipa added.
Nerusu reportedly returned to India on October 14.
Jayalakshmi was a housewife while daughter Tejasvi attending Walled Lake Western High and son Siva was a student of Geisler Middle School.
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