India, March 31 -- An Indian-origin CEO has claimed he was chased and shot twice close to a hotel in San Francisco in the USA.

Deeptanshu 'Deep' Prasad said he survived the 'shooting, ' but the incident left him shaken.

He narrated his experience on his X handle.

"Last night around 3:30-4am I was shot at twice near my hotel in SF," he said.

"They chased me to my hotel and shot the second time when I ran inside and got one of the staff to come out," he said.

He said: "We both heard a glock and he saw the gun while I saw the bullet impacts. I'm still shaking."

Prasad said in his opinion the San Francisco Police Department "wrongly misclassified" the incident as a use of fireworks.

"It is my opinion that @SFPD wrongly misclassified th...