Hyderabad, June 7 -- A 28-year-old man from Telangana was shot dead in the United States in a suspected targeted attack while making a late-night pizza delivery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the early hours of Saturday (local time), his family members said on Sunday.

The victim, identified as Kuncha Anshul, was a resident of Gundlapochampally in the Medchal-Malkajgiri district on the outskirts of Hyderabad.

Local media reports in Pennsylvania, quoting the police, said Anshul was shot dead in the early hours of June 6 while delivering pizza to a vacant unit in a high-crime North Philadelphia housing complex.

"He was found with a close-range gunshot wound to the head. A young Indian student working late nights to support his studies ...