Law enforcement officials updated the public Friday morning on a shooting that left eight people dead at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis.
The victims were found dead in and near the facility on 8951 Mirabel Road sometime after 11 p.m. Thursday, according to police. The suspected shooter was found dead nearby.
Multiple people were also injured, with five people transported to area hospitals and two people treated at the scene.
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FedEx shooting press conference
Here s what we learned during the Friday morning news conference with Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief Randal Taylor and FBI Special Agent in Charge Paul Keenan.
The carnage took just a couple of minutes. “It did not last very long,” he said. In the wake of the shootings, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said the community must guard against resignation and “the assumption that this is how it must be and we might as well get used to it”.
People hug after learning their loved ones are safe following the mass shooting. It was at least the third mass shooting this year in Indianapolis alone. Five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot and killed in January, and a man was accused of killing three adults and a child before abducting his daughter during at argument at a home in March.
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.
Kamala Harris says US gun violence must end , in wake of Indianapolis mass shooting
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The FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, is the site of the latest US fatal mass shooting.
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News of another US mass shooting has prompted US Vice President Kamala Harris to call for an end to American gun violence.
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When police arrived, officers reportedly observed an active shooting scene at the facility
A witness said he saw a man with an automatic rifle firing in the open
On Thursday (local time), a gunman who remains unidentified opened fire at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport in America s mid-west, killing eight people and wounding several others.