New York: An Indian accused of killing his estranged wife and another person in a New Jersey church has confessed his crime in a videotape.
According to the authorities, he has admitted shooting them and said that he would have killed everyone in the building if he had a machine gun at that time.
Joseph Pallipurath, a native 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 did not apologise or express remorse for the crime he committed, Crawford was quoted as saying by the 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 is still in critical condition.
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