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Indianapolis Shooting Victims Identified as FBI Reveals Suspect Was Detained for Mental Illness
The eight victims of a massacre at a FedEx facility in Indiana were named by authorities, hours after law enforcement officials revealed the FBI had been alerted to the man about a year before the mass shooting.
The victims were identified as Matthew Alexander, 32, Samaria Blackwell, 19, Amarjeet Johal, 66, Jaswinder Kaur, 64, Jaswinder Singh, 68, Amarjit Sekhon, 48, Karli Smith, 19, and John Weisert, 74, by the Marion County Coroner’s Office and FedEx.
The deceased all worked at the FedEx Ground facility where the shooting took place, near the Indianapolis Airport. Five others were shot and taken to hospitals.
The Sikh community is in mourning as 4 members were among the victims of the Indianapolis mass shooting
The latest mass shooting in the US at a FedEx facility struck deeply into the Sikh community in the Indianapolis area after it suffered the loss of four members in the bloody onslaught.
“Our community has a long road of healing physically, mentally and spiritually to recover from this tragedy,” Maninder Singh Walia told CNN in an interview Friday evening.
Eight people were killed and several others wounded Thursday night when a former FedEx employee opened fire before taking his own life. Investigators are still trying to determine the motive behind the shooting.
Four Sikhs killed in FedEx facility mass shooting in US
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US President, Vice President, visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga express grief at the killings; community leaders call for look at gun laws
At least eight people, including four Sikhs, were killed and five others were left injured in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in the US state of Indiana, according to community leaders. The gunman, identified as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole of Indiana, allegedly died by suicide after the shooting on late Thursday night at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis, taking the toll to nine.
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Updated April 16 at 8:43 p.m.
Indianapolis police and the FBI continued Friday to investigate why a 19-year-old man opened fire at a FedEx facility on the city s southwest side, killing eight people and injuring several others.
Just after 8:00 p.m. IMPD and the Marion County Coroner’s office released the names of those killed. Police said those who died were 32-year-old Matthew R Alexander, 19-year-old Samaria Blackwell, 66-year-old Amarjeet Johal, 64-year-old Jaswinder Kaur, 68-year-old Jaswinder Singh, 48-year-old Amarjit Sekhon, 19-year-old Karli Smith, and 74-year-old John Weisert. In a news release, IMPD says Marion County’s Coroner’s Office will release cause of death once autopsies are completed.