Apr 17, 2021 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – He appeared in the parking lot after dark — a hooded figure with a gun who immediately began spraying bullets in every direction. He stepped into the FedEx warehouse, a place where he had once worked, and continued shooting, “firing into the open,” according to one witness. He shouted unintelligibly as he fired off round after round, and then, before police could arrive, he had killed himself, leaving in his wake eight dead and at least seven wounded. On Thursday night, in a terrifyingly quick spasm of violence, Indianapolis, Indiana, faced its third mass shooting since the start of the year. And a nation already weary from a pandemic grappled with yet another bloody rampage, only weeks after back-to-back mass shootings last month at spas in the Atlanta area and at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.