OLATHE, Kan. — A bartender at the restaurant where a man was arrested last week for an apparently racially motivated bar shooting of two Indian men told a 911 dispatcher that the suspect admitted shooting two people, but described them as Iranian.

A recording from Henry County, Mo., 911 reveals that the bartender warned police not to approach the building with sirens blaring or the man would ‘‘freak out’’ and ‘‘something bad’s going to happen.’’

The man, Adam Purinton, 51, of Olathe, made his first appearance in court Monday via video link. He has been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder.

During Monday’s hearing, Johnson County District Judge Charles Droege appointed public defender Michael McCulloch to represent Purinton. McCulloch declined to comment on the case.

Purinton is jailed on $2 million bond and his next court appearance is set for March. 9.

According to witnesses, Purinton yelled ‘‘get out of my country’’ at two 32-year-old Indian men, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, before he opened fire at Austin’s Bar and Grill in the Kansas City suburb on Wednesday evening.

Kuchibhotla was killed and Madasani injured. The two had come to the United States from India to study.

Associated Press