Witness says he saw a man firing “an automatic rifle”
From CNN s Alta Spells
FedEx employees Timothy Boillat and Jeremiah Miller. WISH
Two employees who say they were at the FedEx ground facility when they heard gunshots shared details of the incident with CNN affiliate WISH.
Jeremiah Miller told WISH he was taking a break between shifts when he heard two, then three shots.
He first thought the sounds were coming from a car.
Miller said he then heard between six and 10 shots which made him stand and look at the entrance door. I saw a man with a submachine gun of some sort, an automatic rifle, and he was firing in the open. I immediately ducked down and got scared and my friend’s mother, she came in and told us to get inside the car,” Miller told WISH.
8 people killed after mass shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis, police say
Eight people were killed in a mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility on Thursday night, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Genae Cook said.
Authorities were aware of multiple other injured victims in hospitals, one of whom was in critical condition, she said during a media briefing early Friday.
Police believe the shooter took his own life and there is “no active threat to the community at this time,” Cook said.
It is unclear what motivated the shooting, but investigations are ongoing and will continue into most of the day Friday, she said.
Shooting probably only lasted one to two minutes,” police investigator says
The FedEx shooting probably only lasted one to two minutes,” the deputy chief of criminal investigations for Indianapolis police told CNN early Friday morning. It was very short, Craig McCartt said, adding that the suspect exited his vehicle and immediately began shooting while in the parking lot.
According to McCartt, the suspect entered the facility and continued shooting.
Police officers then arrived at the scene.
McCartt said he believed the suspect encountered police officers inside the facility and then took his own life.
Officers found eight deceased people both inside the building and in the parking lot.
8 people killed in shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, police say
A gunman opened fire outside and inside a FedEx facility near Indianapolis’ main airport Thursday night, killing eight people, wounding several others and sending witnesses running before taking his own life, police said.
Police were called to the facility at about 11 p.m. local time for what has become the country’s deadliest shooting since 10 people were killed March 22 in a grocery shooting in Colorado.
The names of the victims or gunman were not immediately released.
“The (gunman) came into the parking lot, and I believe he exited his vehicle and quickly began shooting. … The first shooting occurred in the parking lot, and then he went inside and did not get very far (inside),” Indianapolis police Deputy Chief Craig McCartt told CNN early Friday.