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BOSTON (AP) — A man from India stabbed two teenagers with a
fork, slapped a female passenger and a crew member and mimicked
shooting himself during an international flight, authorities
said.
The Lufthansa flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, on
Saturday was diverted to Boston, where the Praneeth Kumar
Usiripalli, 28, was arrested and charged with one count of
assault with a dangerous weapon.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, a 17-year-old passenger
awoke to find Usiripalli standing over him. Usiripalli stabbed
at the teen’s clavicle with a fork and then stabbed another
17-year-old boy in the head, causing a laceration, prosecutors
allege. The first teen, who wasn’t injured because he was
wearing a thick sweatshirt, told investigators he had exchanged
pleasantries with the man seated next to him during boarding but
otherwise had not interacted with him, according to the criminal
complaint.
Usiripalli, who entered the U.S. on a student visa, doesn’t have
lawful immigration status, authorities said. He was enrolled in
a master's degree program at Moody Theological Seminary in
Chicago from the fall of 2022 to spring 2025, according to the
school.
Usiripalli didn't have an attorney listed for him in the federal
court system Tuesday.
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