Brandon Hole, the 19-year-old man who the police say fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility on Thursday night, legally purchased two semiautomatic rifles he used in the attack just a few months after the police seized a shotgun from him, the chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said on Saturday.
In March 2020, the police seized a shotgun from Hole after his mother raised concerns about his mental state, records show. But, chief Randal Taylor said, the fact that Hole was legally able to make the more recent gun purchases indicated that despite his mother’s warning and the police seizure of a gun the authorities had not deemed him subject to Indiana’s so-called red flag law, which bars people from possessing a firearm if they are found by a judge to present a dangerous risk.
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April 19, 2021
Just days after Vaisakhi the harvest festival that marks the start of the Sikh New Year America’s Sikh community was left petrified by a bloody massacre.
Among the eight victims who died in the mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx Facility on April 15, four were Sikh.
“I have several family members who work at the particular facility and are traumatised,” community member Komal Chohan, whose 66-year-old grandmother Amarjeet Kaur Johal was among the victims, said in a Sikh Coalition press release. “My
nani (grandmother), my family, and our families should not feel unsafe at work, at their place of worship, or anywhere. Enough is enough our community has been through enough trauma.” Johal was found with a paycheck in hand, ready to leave to celebrate a grandchild’s birthday.