Washington/IBNS: An Indian origin tech CEO has claimed to be shot twice near his hotel in San Francisco, the United States in the wee hours on Sunday, media reports said.

In a long X post, Deep Prasad said the incident occurred at around 3:30-4:00 am.

Prasad claimed he was being chased by the assailants to the hotel.

He wrote, "Last night around 3:30-4am I was shot at twice near my hotel in SF. They chased me to my hotel and shot the second time when I ran inside and got one of the staff to come out.We both heard a glock and he saw the gun while I saw the bullet impacts. I’m still shaking."

'The city is dangerous'

Prasad, who is the CEO of GenMat, slammed the San Francisco Police Department over its response to the incident.

The techie said police classified the incident as a "use of fireworks case with zero investigation". He called the city "dangerous" and said he had never experienced a similar incident in 30 years.

Prasad said, "It is my opinion that @SFPD wrongly misclassified this as a use of fireworks case with zero investigation and it is dangerous to treat cases like this with such callousness. The city is dangerous. I have never experienced this in 30 years."

"I’m happy to be proven wrong. One interesting theory that was suggested to me was that they lobbed fireworks and we couldn’t see them. If that’s the case,a proper investigation will rule this. For now,I don’t rule out it could have been fireworks but I trust myself & hotel staff."

The CEO claimed shots sounded like "handgun firing" and a "glock".

"It just sounded like a handgun firing and particularly a glock (I forget which model of Glock the hotel staff said it sounded like but he said he recognized it as he shoots them all the time. A proper investigation will tell," he said.

When one user wrote the difference between arms can't be heard, Prasad said, "I see, thanks for the clarification. In any case it was some kind of pistol he saw (I didn’t see it, only heard the shots and smell of gunpowder). The smell makes me wonder.

"If they were fireworks I’ll acknowledge accordingly. Just want a proper investigation. I refuse to be gaslit that there weren’t guns involved, never seen a “fire work” with no smoke trail, no visual blast in the car, etc."