Delhi: Family members of the Indian men shot at a bar in Olathe, Kansas, in a possible hate crime said they feared the current atmosphere of fear and xenophobia in the United States means the country is not a safe place for Indians, with one father exhorting parents not to send their children there.

"There is a kind of hysteria spreading [in India] that is not good because so many of our beloved children live there," said Venu Madhav, a relative of the Srinivas Kuchibhotla, the young software engineer killed on Wednesday night. "Such hatred is not good for people."

A man shows a picture of Alok Madasani, as his father Jaganmohan Reddy talks to the media in Hyderabad, India. Credit:AP

Kuchibhotla and his friend and colleague Alok Madansani, 32, were at a crowded bar watching a basketball game on Wednesday when a drunken man allegedly began hurling racial slurs at them, then opened fire, reportedly shouting "get out of my country".

Kuchibhotla, 32, was seriously wounded in the attack and died later at a hospital. Madansani and a third victim, Ian Grillot, who tried to intervene, were treated for shotgun wounds at a hospital.