Apr 19, 2021 / 12:04 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) There are still a lot of questions surrounding the FedEx mass shooting that left eight people dead. Many wonder how the gunman was able to legally buy the rifles used in the deadly shooting after police confirmed they had been in contact with the shooter in the past and took a weapon away from him.
Indiana was one of the first states to implement red flag laws, but some local experts said they don’t go far enough.
“With Indiana’s law, it is basically a gun removal law. It says that the police have a right to take someone’s existing gun. It doesn’t automatically stop them from buying other guns later. And that is one of the big loopholes in Indiana’s law,” said Paul Helmke.
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The Indianapolis community is once again left to navigate tragedy after the city s third mass shooting in as many months.
This time, eight people were killed and several more were injured when a gunman opened fire on workers at the FedEx Ground Plainfield Operations Center on the southwest side of Indianapolis Thursday night.
Police identified the shooter as a 19-year-old from Indianapolis and said the suspect killed himself inside the FedEx facility before police arrived shortly after the 11 p.m. rampage. No motive has been released in the shooting.
Shooter at FedEx had guns legally
Police say they traced 2 rifles in slaying of 8
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS – The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis legally bought the two rifles used in the attack despite red flag laws designed to prevent such purchases, police said.
A trace of the two guns found by investigators at the scene revealed that suspect Brandon Scott Hole, 19, of Indianapolis, legally bought the rifles last July and September, officials with the Indianapolis police said Saturday.
The police did not say where Hole bought what they described as “assault rifles,” citing the ongoing investigation, but said he was seen using both rifles during the shooting.
Apr 24, 2021 / 10:43 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Two men in their 30s died Monday afternoon after a car stopped and shot into another vehicle near East 38th Street and North Keystone Avenue.
Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were called around 2:18 p.m. Monday to the 3700 block of Baltimore Avenue on a report of a person shot.
They arrived to find two people with injuries consistent with gunshot wounds. One man was pronounced dead at the scene. The second man was transported from the scene by emergency medical professionals but later died, IMPD said at the scene.
The men were identified Tuesday as Clarence January, 34, and Savage Trent Jones, 35.