(Reuters) â The young gunman who killed eight workers at an Indianapolis FedEx facility before taking his own life legally bought the two semiautomatic rifles he used during last week s massacre months after he had been in psychiatric detention, police said.
A trace by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives turned up the two legal purchases last July and September by Brandon Hole, 19, a former employee at the facility, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said on Saturday.
An IMDB spokesman on Sunday said the department was not disclosing where the guns were bought.
The purchases were made a few months after Hole was briefly placed under psychiatric detention in March and a shotgun was seized from his home when his mother contacted law enforcement to report he might try to commit suicide by cop, according to the FBI.
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Four Sikhs, including three women, were among eight people killed in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis in Indiana. This was the worst attack on Indian-origin people in the US since the Oak Creek Gurdwara shooting in Wisconsin on August 5, 2012.
The victims were identified as Amarjeet Johal (66), Jaswinder Kaur (64), Amarjit Sekhon (48) and Jaswinder Singh (68). Five Indian-Americans were injured, one of them seriously with a bullet in the eye.
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Mourners held a vigil for the eight FedEx workers slain Thursday allegedly by a former co-worker as Indianapolis reels from the nation’s latest mass shooting.
About 50 people mourners attended the vigil at Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, according to The Indianapolis Star.
Savana DeLao and Michelle Parks would have been working at the facility Thursday night under normal circumstances, but DeLao left work early, and Parks didn’t work her usual shift, claiming something didn’t feel right, according to the report. I was laughing, like ‘you guys have a good day. I’ll see you next week, DeLao reportedly said to her colleagues, as she punched out several hours before the massacre.