India's Ambassador to the US Navtej Sarna gives Ian Grillot the $100,000 cheque. PTI

Houston: A 24-year-old American, who took a bullet for an Indian, has been honoured as 'A True American Hero' by the Indian-American community in Houston, which raised $100,000 to help him buy a house in his hometown Kansas. Ian Grillot, who was injured when he tried to intervene in the shooting by a Navy veteran, targetting Indians at a bar in Olathe, Kansas last month, was given the honour at the 14th annual gala of India House Houston here.