Ashwin Patel, a 59 year old Gujarati-origin man, was shot dead at a convenience store in Irvington, New Jersey, in an incident of a store-robbery gone wrong. A native of Sarsa town in the Anand district of Gujarat, Ashwin was targeted by two people, who reportedly wanted to rob the store. Patel is the 10th person from Charotar to have been murdered or found dead under suspicious conditions abroad, since February this year.
Patel was settled in the US since the last 20 years, and worked in the convenience store attached to a fuel station. As per reports, Ashwin was at the store when two armed men entered the store and fired four rounds of bullets at him. While one shot missed, the rest hit him; two on the chest and one on the leg. Patel succumbed to the wounds on the spot. Ashwin who has not visited Anand since he left for US was planning to visit his home town this year. But fate played a cruel game and cut short his life before he could visits his native place.
