Police identify 8 people killed in Indianapolis FedEx shooting
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Indianapolis police guard Friday the entrance to a FedEx facility where a gunman had opened fire killing eight people and injuring several people before killing himself Thursday evening. Photo by Mark Lyons/EPA-EFE
April 17 (UPI) Indianapolis police have identified the eight people who died in Thursday night s FedEx shooting.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said in an update Saturday that the Marion County Coroner s Office have released the names after notifying next-of-kin.
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The eight victims were identified as Matthew R. Alexander, 32, Samaria Blackwell, 19, Amarjeet Johal, 66, Jaswinder Kaur, 64, Jaswinder Singh, 68, Amarjit Sekhon, 48, Karli Smith, 19, and John Weisert, 74.
Washington, April 17
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 commun
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The shooter was identified as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole of Indiana. Police said the shooting lasted no more than two minutes and ended when Hole died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A spokesman for the Sikh Coalition said in a statement Friday afternoon that at least four of those killed were members of the Sikh community. The group said they were deeply saddened by the deaths.
There are between 8,000 and 10,000 Sikh Americans in Indiana, according to the coalition. Members of the religion, which began in India in the 15th century, began settling in Indiana more than 50 years ago and opened its first house of worship, known as a gurdwara, in 1999.
Read more about Four Sikhs among eight killed in mass shooting at FedEx facility in US on Business Standard. Four Sikhs, including three women, were among eight people who were killed in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in the US state of Indiana staffed by a large number of Indian-American employees