A young man from Indian studying in Chicago has been severely injured after he was killed by getting gunshot in his right cheek by an unknown shooter, according to reports.Name Mohammad Akbar was seriously wounded in the shooting on December 6 in the Albany Park neighbourhood in Chicago, according to reports and information provided by his family in India.Near about at 8:45 am on Wednesday someone walked up to him and fired shots, Chicago Police were quoted as saying by the Chicago Tribune.

He was shot by gunshot in the cheek and taken in sevior condition to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said.The county police have started investigating the unknown attacker and are trying to hint the alleged assailants. Chicago police said they were not treating the attack as the hate crime. Nobody has been arrested yet.Akbar from Hyderabad is studying for his postgraduate degree in computer systems networking and telecommunications at Devry University in the US city, his family has said.

He has been in Chicago for the past three years and currently staying in a flat on Whipple Street.The shooting comes amidst growing attacks on Indians and Americans of Indian descent in recent months.Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a software engineer from India, was shot in Olathe, Kansas, in February by a US Navy veteran who had told him and his friend at a bar to go back to their country.Weeks later, a Sikh man also was shot in his arm in his driveway in Kent, Washington state, by a masked man who had told him to go back to his “own country”.