NEW YORK: Indian national Joseph Pallipurath, who drove all across the US from California to New Jersey to kill his 24-year-old wife, has been brought to Georgia to face trial. Palliparuth, a native of Kerala, was shackled as he was taken off the plane.

27-year-old Palliparuth had confronted his wife Reshma James (24), who was said to be trying to escape from an abusive relationship, shot her and two others in a church frequented by the Indians in New Jersey on November 23. The injured were identified as Dennis John Mallosseril (25), who tried to intervene and Reshma's cousin Silvy Perincheril (47).

Reshma died four hours later, Mallosseril next day and Perincheril is lying in coma in the hospital. They were married in India about a year ago and then moved to California. Pallipurath, police said, drove from their home in Sacramento in California on the West Coast to New Jersey on the east coast to confront his wife who had left him and was staying with one of her relatives. She had obtained a court order restraining him to come near her. Police said he would undergo psychological evaluation.

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