21-year-old Savitha Shan was a superstar student of the University of Texas, set to graduate in May 2026. She was doing two majors, one in Economics and the other in management information systems. But as she was gunned down by a shooter on West Sixth Street in Austin, her ethnicity became the main talking point on social media as many wondered what Shan was doing in Texas.
"If only she stayed in the safety of India she would still be alive," one hate comment read. "No, in india she would have faced a slow stinky de@th, electrocuted by live wire/ falling in a pothole filled with sewage water / dog bites ..these are the ways she could have dièd here. At least she went away in a second, that's better," another wrote.
