and Madasani were in hospital recovering from their injuries.

Purinton was arrested in Clinton city of neighbouring Missouri state when a bartender reported to police about him saying that he had killed “two Middle Eastern men”, according to local police quoted by The Star.

According to his profile on LinkedIn, Kuchibhotla, 32, graduated from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad in 2005 with an electrical engineering degree.

He received a master’s degree from the University of Texas in El Paso and was working as an aviation programmes manager with Garmin, an electronics manufacturer best known for its consumer navigation systems.

The manager at Rockwell Collins, Kuchibhotla’s former employer, Rod Larson, told the Star: “He was very sharp. A top-of-his-class kind of guy. His personality was exceptional.”

Madasani, 32, was a graduate ofroad by first light. Since my girlfriend Amy was dropping me off and proceeding to the finish we took a longer route so she was familiar with the dirt forest service roads which have a county road number also and makes map reading a challenge sometimes.

Small town USA! Rochford was a railroad town and is now a stop on the Mickelson Rail to Trail path.

I hit the trail around 7:30am from the Deer Creek Trailhead. It was clear, sunny, and 34 degrees Fahrenheit. Amy bid me a good run, reminding me to enjoy myself. I forgot I was retired and told her I’d probably see her by noon. The direction I was traveling was a net gain of about 2,000 feet from 4,000 to 6,000 feet above sea