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Brandon Hole, the 19-year-old former employee identified by authorities as the gunman who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis before taking his own life on Thursday, was never given a hearing before a court of law despite local police seizing his firearm last year in a manner consistent with the execution of a red flag law, a prosecutor said on Monday.
Law enforcement seized a shotgun belonging to the teenager in March 2020 after his mother reportedly raised concerns that he was mentally unstable and might commit suicide by cop. The gun seizure is in line with red flag law proceedings, which allow authorities to take guns from those deemed a threat to themselves or others, prior to a scheduled hearing in front of a judge.
On Monday, Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears revealed that Brandon Scott Hole, a former FedEx employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, never appeared in court for a hearing under Indiana’s “red flag” law last March.
Apr 20, 2021 / 12:52 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) On the day in March 2020 that police seized a shotgun from Brandon Hole and took him for a mental health evaluation, an officer saw what he recognized as white supremacist websites on Hole’s computer, more than a year before Hole shot and killed eight people on Thursday night at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
That’s according to a police report released Monday by Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
Hole’s mother and sister went to the IMPD’s East District headquarters on March 3, 2020, to ask for help after they said he bought a gun and began talking about using it to try “suicide by cop,” according to the report.