New Delhi: Two Indian students, studying in Louisiana State University, were shot dead by unidentified assailants on the campus on Friday.
The two students were identified as Chandrashekhar Reddy and Kiran Kumar, who hailed from Kurnool and Karim Nagar in Andhra Pradesh respectively. They were doctoral students at the university.
CBS News quoted Charles Zewe, a spokesman for the LSU System, as saying that the two had been shot once in the head. Zewe said Chandrasekhar "was bound with a computer cable and shot, while Kiran was found near the door."
The first call of a 'medical emergency' came into the LSU police department at 10:37 PM (EST). The call was made by Kiran's wife, who first found the two dead. Kiran's wife is a software engineer and is said to be pregnant. The shootout took place in Kiran's friend's room.
Family sources in Karim Nagar said Kiran's parents are leaving for US early on Saturday. Chandrasekhar was working toward a doctorate degree in biochemistry and Kiran was in the chemistry doctoral programme.
Louisiana police said the two were likely to have been shot dead during a home invasion. No suspects were identified immediately, but reports said the police are looking for three men.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Michael Ruffner, also claimed that it was a home invasion. "It was not a shootout. It was a home invasion. There were two PhD students who were shot and killed sometime last evening after 10:30 PM, Central time," he told CNN-IBN. This is the first killing on the campus since the early 1990s.
The incident took place inside an apartment complex at the Edward Gay Complex. The apartment building is designated for married and graduate students and it is on the north edge of the campus, near one of Baton Rouge's highest-crime areas and near an elementary school.
The apartment complex, a cluster of pale yellow cinderblock, three-story buildings, is within sight of the transition offices of Louisiana Governor-elect Bobby Jindal.
Narain, an uncle of Kiran Kumar, however, told CNN-IBN that Kiran and his wife Sapna used to live on Roosevelt Street. "Their residence is different from the university campus," he said.
Srinivas, a friend of Komma Chandrashekhar Reddy in US, told CNN-IBN that they were alarmed on Friday night when Chandrashekhar didn't return home in time.
Memorial Tower which is located at the heart of the LSU campus. 
Two  students were found dead in an apartment in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. They had been shot in the head by unidentified assailants in what investigators are calling an apparent .

The deceased students have been identified as Chandrashekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, both of who hailed from Andhra Pradesh, India. They were doctorate students at the Louisiana State University (LSU). The homicides occurred at the Edwards Gay Apartments on the school's campus, and police have been searching for three suspects. These appear to be the first killings on the campus since the early 1990s.

The bodies were discovered after Allam's pregnant wife called emergency  to request urgent medical aid. Both men had been shot once through the head, according to Charles Zewe, a spokesperson for the EWU system. Officers and medical personnel were immediately dispatched to the scene. The University officials gathered the latest information and sent out an emergency text message to the members of the LSU community who had previously registered their phone numbers with the university's  emergency text-messaging system.

"From what we're being told, Komma was bound with a computer cable and shot," Zewe said. "The other man was found near the door." There were no indications of a forced entry.

"Police actually think it was a straight home invasion and not a concern to the rest of the campus," said Kristine Calongne, a university spokesperson. The university was not in a state of  at any time.