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April 19, 2021 Just days after Vaisakhi—the harvest festival that marks the start of the Sikh New Year—America’s Sikh community was left petrified by a bloody massacre. Among the eight victims who died in the mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx Facility on April 15, four were Sikh. “I have several family members who work at the particular facility and are traumatised,” community member Komal Chohan, whose 66-year-old grandmother Amarjeet Kaur Johal was among the victims, said in a Sikh Coalition press release. “My nani (grandmother), my family, and our families should not feel...

He said his sister-in-law began working at the FedEx facility in November and was a dedicated worker whose husband was disabled. "She was a workaholic, she always was working, working," he said. "She would never sit still ... the other day she had the (COVID-19) shot and she was really sick, but she still went to work." In addition to Sekhon, the Marion County Coroner’s office identified the dead late Friday as: Matthew R. Alexander, 32; Samaria Blackwell, 19; Amarjeet Johal, 66; Jasvinder Kaur, 50; Jaswinder Singh, 68; Karli Smith, 19; and John Weisert, 74. Police said Brandon Scott Hole, ...

Sikh community calls for gun reforms after FedEx shooting Poll Yes By Casey Smith And Rick Callahan, The Associated Press on April 17, 2021. The home of 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole, the suspected shooter who opened fire with a rifle at a FedEx facility, is seen in Indianapolis, Friday, April 16, 2021. At a news conference Friday, Deputy Police Chief Craig McCartt also confirmed the gunman's identity as Hole. McCartt said Hole was a former employee of the company and last worked for FedEx in 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) INDIANAPOLIS – Members of Indianapolis’ tight-knit Sikh commun...

Reliable and kind, that’s how Matthew Alexander's loved ones described him. Matthew was a former Avon High School baseball player. He was honored Saturday before the opening pitch on Senior Day. There was a moment of silence before his father threw the opening pitch.   "That felt like that was part of Matt," his father Brad Alexander said. "Matt was a pitcher for Avon. He was a shortstop for Avon. I didn't do near as well as he did in the day, but I was there and I knew he was looking down saying thank you dad." Friends and family said they couldn't think of a more fitting way to honor the...

Indianapolis Sikhs Mourn FedEx Shooting Victims as Questions About Motive Linger Four of the eight people killed on Thursday night were from Indiana’s growing Sikh community. Family members of Amarjeet Johal, one of the victims of the shooting at the FedEx facility, gathered at the Sikh Satsang in Indianapolis, on Saturday.Credit...Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times April 17, 2021, 7:58 p.m. ET INDIANAPOLIS — For decades now, Sikhs have come by the thousands to Central Indiana seeking good jobs, quiet lives and affordable homes. Some became doctors or police officers, but many others ...