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Eight people were shot and killed in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, and the shooter has killed himself, police said.
Local and state leaders waking up Friday to news of a shooting massacre at an Indianapolis FedEx facility that killed at least eight people, plus the shooter, are expressing sympathy for the victims and their families, gratitude to law enforcement, and disappointment America s gun violence epidemic again is hitting Indiana.
Democratic Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said as law enforcement works to learn more about yet another mass shooting, he said our prayers are with the families of those whose lives were cut short.
Police ID Indianapolis gunman as young man in his 20s
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Detectives work the scene where multiple people were shot at the FedEx Ground facility early Friday morning, April 16, 2021, in Indianapolis. A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before apparently taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings in the United States after a relative lull during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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Police have identified the gunman who opened fire at an Indianapolis FedEx facility as a young man in his 20s, according to the Associated Press. His name and the names of the eight people who were shot and killed remains unclear.
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A group of crime scene investigators gather to speak in the parking lot of a FedEx SmartPost on April 16, 2021 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images
Eight people were shot and killed and several others were injured in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis Thursday night, according to authorities.
The suspect was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Craig McCartt, deputy chief of Criminal Investigations at Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, said at a Friday news conference.
When officers arrived at the FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport just after 11 p.m., they found a chaotic and active crime scene, McCartt said.