Accessing Emergency Mental Health Care In Indiana Often Challenging
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Late on April 15, Brandon Hole stepped out of his car at an Indianapolis FedEx facility. Armed with a rifle, he shot and killed four people outside before moving inside to kill four more. Then Hole, 19, turned the gun on himself.
That night wasn’t Hole’s first interaction with police. In March 2020, his mother called the police because she was worried her son would try to commit “suicide by cop.” Hole was placed under immediate detention and taken to a local hospital.
Treating the Indianapolis attack as a hate crime will keep us all safer
Eyewitness accounts suggest bias as a motivation for the shooting. Members of the Sikh Coalition gather at the Sikh Satsang of Indianapolis on April 17, 2021, to formulate the group’s response to the shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis that claimed the lives of four members of the Sikh community. A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before taking his own life in the late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
April 22, 2021
(RNS) Last Thursday (April 15), 19-year-old Brandon Hole took two loaded semiautomatic rifles to a Federal Express facility in Indianapolis and opened fire on the unsuspecting workers. He killed eight, injured five others and traumatized so many more before killing himself.
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Indianaâs red flag law is under scrutiny after a mass killing last week at an Indianapolis FedEx facility.
In hindsight, itâs easy to see the lawâs shortcomings.
Under red flag laws â as of April 2020, 19 states and the District of Columbia had them â police or family can seek a court order to take guns away from an individual deemed a danger to himself or others. The court can also designate the person as having a violent propensity or emotionally unstable conduct with the intent of preventing future purchase of guns.
Indiana was second only to Connecticut to enact such legal safeguards.
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