Leaders of the Sikh Satsang of Indianapolis addressing their grief in the parking lot of their temple in the city. AFP
Indianapolis: Half of the eight workers shot to death at an Indianapolis FedEx facility by a former employee before he killed himself belonged to the Sikh religious community, leading an advocacy group to urge a probe of possible racial or ethnic hatred as a factor.
Law enforcement officials said they have yet to determine what motivated the gunman, 19-year-old Brandon Hole, who was white, to carry out Thursday night’s rampage, at a FedEx operations centre near Indianapolis International Airport.
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Evansville, Henderson police: Indy FedEx shooting shows active shooter prep needed John T. Martin, Evansville Courier & Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind. The spate of mass shootings across the United States reached Indiana on Thursday night, bringing workplace gun violence closer to home for Evansville and Henderson residents.
Eight people were killed and others were wounded at an Indianapolis FedEx plant, near the city s airport. The suspected assailant, 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole, killed himself. He had been an employee of FedEx.
It s been a few years, but this region has also seen workplace tragedies.
The most recent was on June 25, 2008, when a 25-year-old worker at Atlantis Plastics in Henderson named Wesley Neal Higdon killed his supervisor and four other employees before turning his weapon on himself.