A Seattle police officer who killed an Indian student by hitting her with his patrol car has been fired. Officer Kevin Dave lost his job on January 6, 2025, almost two years after the crash that killed 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula.
As per The Hindu, Kandula was a student from Andhra Pradesh studying at Northeastern University in Seattle. On January 23, 2023, she was crossing the street in a crosswalk when Dave’s police car hit her. Dave was rushing to help someone who had overdosed on drugs. The speed limit on that street was 25 mph, but Dave was going 74 mph. The crash threw Kandula’s body almost 140 feet. She died from her injuries that same night.
