NRI admits killing wife, another person

New York, Nov 26 (PTI) An Indian accused of killing
his estranged wife and another person in a New Jersey church
has, in a videotaped confession, admitted shooting them and
said he would have killed everyone in the building if he had a
machine gun at that time, according to authorities.

Joseph Pallipurath, a native of the Southern Indian
state of Kerala, who fatally shot his 24-year-old wife Reshma
James, who wanted to end the "abusive marriage", and
critically wounded a third person, admitted to Sunday's
shooting after he surrendered peacefully at a motel near
Atlanta on Monday, Georgia prosecutor Eric Crawford said.

The accused also agreed to return to New Jersey when
he was produced in a court in Georgia.

Pallipurath also did not apologise express remorse for
the crime he committed, Crawford was quoted as saying by
media.

The accused told authorities that he believed that
church members were blocking his attempts to contact his wife,
Crawford said.

The couple had an arranged marriage just a year ago
and Reshma had suffered abuse right from the initial days of
her marriage in Kerala, which continued here, police said.
Reshma had left him about three months ago to stay
with her cousin in New Jersey and obtained a restraining order
against him.

Pallipurath had drove across US on Sunday from
California to New Jersey, to persuade his wife Reshma to
return to him and then shot her when she spurned him.

He was on run after the shooting in which another man
Dennis John Mallosseril, 23, who maintained the church's
website, was also killed when he attempted to intervene
between the couple.

A third person, James' cousin, Silvy Perincheril,47,
who was shot in the head remains in critical condition.

Meanwhile, Reshma's body is expected to be sent to
India and officials at the Indian consulate in New York have
offered all help to facilitate the process.

Police has also recovered the jeep in which
Palliparuth escaped after the incident and the revolver which
he is believed to have used during the shooting.

The accused is expected to be back in New Jersy within
next eleven days to face the murder charges. He is charged
with two counts of homicide, an attempted homicide and weapon
offences.

Pallipurath and James were married a year ago. It was
an arranged marriage and in January this year, they had moved
to California. Reshma, a nurse, had alleged that he had been
beating her and wanted to end the "abusive marriage".