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“So we feel like his terminal cancer probably played a large part in whatever it was that occurred in his life and what was happening,” he said, according to US media reports.

But for now, Greenwalt said, investigators are on the lookout for more information.

Police said hostage negotiators, who were called in after the complaint was received, tried to speak with Narumanchi, calling and sending text messages for the next few hours, but were unsuccessful.

“You have helped so many people,” a negotiator said to Narumanchi through a megaphone, according to a video by a local journalist cited by The Sacramento Bee. “I know you’ve been dealt a very terrible card,” the negotiator said, to no response.

After a few hours, SWAT (special weapons and tactic) officers sent a robot fitted with a camera inside the doctor’s office to gauge the situation. They then entered the building and found the bodies of Dodson and Narumanchi riddled with apparent gunshot wounds.

“It appeared that Dr Narumanchi shot himself after shooting Dr Dodson,” according to the police department’s news release. “There were five people inside the building when the suspect arrived,” Greenwalt said, adding that there were no children or patients at the facility when the incident occurred. .

“We were able to see that both subjects were deceased,” Greenwalt said, referring to Dodson and Narumanchi. The Travis County Medical Examiner will be conducting an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

Narumanchi’s parents on Wednesday released a statement, expressing condolences to the family and friends of Dr Dodson. “We don’t understand our son’s motives or actions but feel this time is best spent remembering Dr. Dodson and her contributions to this world,” the family wrote in a statement to CBS Austin.

But, the PM said, India did not get demoralised and instead adopted a “proactive approach” with public participation, boosted its Covid-19 infrastructure, ramped up testing, trained human resources, adopted appropriate behaviour as a mass movement, and in the process saved innumerable lives.

Underlining the scale of India’s challenge, Modi pointed out that India is home to 18% of the world’s population. “By managing Covid-19, India has saved the world from a disaster.”

The PM then highlighted India’s vaccination plans, and said that while taking care of its domestic needs, India has — through this period — fulfilled its global responsibilities, from helping citizens reach their countries of residence when air space was closed, to distributing medicines to showing the world how India’s alternative medicine system, Ayurveda, boosted immunity, to now supplying vaccines. “Right now, there are two made in India vaccines — but in the coming days, many more vaccines will come. This will help us support other countries at scale and speed.”

The other key focus of the PM’S prepared remarks as well as responses during an interactive session with chief executives of global companies was the economy and the opportunities India has to offer. On new technologies, Modi said that experts point to four key changes — connectivity, automation, artificial intelligence or machine learning, and realtime data. “India is one of those countries where there is maximum data available, where there is mobile connectivity and smartphones in the remote areas. India also has a large pool of expert talent on design and automation and engineering centres of many global companies are located here. For years, Indian engineers have displayed their capabilities on AI and automation to the world.”

But, in a note of caution, Modi said that fourth industrial revolution technologies must be centred of human values, and the need to ensure that technology becomes a tool for the ease of living, and not a “trap”.

He also spoke of the digital infrastructure India had built in the last six years — through bank accounts, mobiles, Aadhaar and digital payment systems. “You will be surprised to know that in this period, more than ₹1.8 trillion was transferred to the bank accounts of over 750 million people. This is a symbol of the power of our digital infrastructure.” When asked what would be the policy and regulatory approach towards digital ecosystem, Modi said, “Access, inclusion and empowerment while safeguarding user privacy. There will be access of digital services in remotest areas... We also believe in promoting competition... investing in research on frontier technologies... and data privacy. The country is working towards a strong law for data protection.” At a time when the global investor community is carefully looking at signs about how India’s self-reliance slogan would translate into policies, the PM emphasised that an Atmanirbhar Bharat was committed to global good and global supply chain. “India has the capacity, capability and reliability to meet global supply chains. India has a vast consumer base and its expansion will help the world.”

Portraying India as an attractive, stable and democratic investment destination, the PM also charted out “structural reforms” and India’s focus on improving the ease of doing business — including the production-linked incentives scheme, predictable taxation and foreign direct investment norms, reduction of corporate taxes and GST rates, labour codes which have given flexibility to industries, decriminalisation of offences under the Companies Act, and alignment of growth with climate related goals.

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