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Slain BU student’s passion recalled

Shooting stuns college, friends

By Maria Sacchetti and Dan Adams

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 22, 2012

Boston University identified the graduate student shot to death early Thursday morning in Allston as Kanagala Seshadri Rao, a 24-year-old from eastern India who enrolled in a highly selective management program last fall. Rao had been shot in the head and leg and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to officials. Kenneth W. Freeman, dean of the School of Management, described Rao as a bright young man who attracted many friends and won the respect of faculty and staff with his “positive, can-do’’ attitude.

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