The FBI has announced it is investigating the recent triple shooting and homicide at a suburban Kansas City bar as a hate crime.

As we previously reported, Adam Purinton is charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with the Feb. 22 attack in Olathe, Kansas, that killed one Indian man, wounded another and hospitalized a stranger who tried to intervene.

In a statement today from the FBI the agency said it is working with the Olathe Police Department to investigate the triple shooting and homicide that occurred on February 22, 2017, at Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe, KS.

“Based upon the initial investigative activity, the FBI, in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, is investigating this incident as a hate crime. The FBI will continue to work jointly with Olathe Police Department and our state and local partners regarding this ongoing investigation. As this is an ongoing investigation, we are not able to comment further at this time,” the statement read.

According to the Associated Press, a Missouri bartender told a 911 dispatcher that a patron said he killed “two Iranian people” just hours after a shooting 70 miles away at a suburban Kansas City bar left one Indian man dead and another hurt.

In a recording of the 911 call made early Thursday, the bartender at the Applebee’s in Clinton, Missouri, is heard saying the man made her promise she wouldn’t call police.

Fifty-one-year-old Purinton was arrested soon afterward.