Another mass shooting kills 8 in US city of Indianapolis
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April 17, 2021
WASHINGTON: At least eight people were killed in a shooting at a delivery company by a gunman who is believed to have then turned the gun on himself, police in the US city of Indianapolis said.
The victims all died at a Fedex facility where the shooting took place late Thursday, police spokeswoman Genae Cook told a news conference, adding several other people had been taken to hospital.
Four people with gunshot wounds were transported by ambulance, including one in critical condition, police said. Three were transported with other injuries, while two were treated at the scene and then released.
Updated April 16, 2021 at 9:06 PM ET A man identified by police as Brandon Hole, 19, opened fire outside a FedEx warehouse facility in Indianapolis late
INDIANAPOLIS: Officials load a body into a vehicle on Friday at the site of the mass shooting. AFP
INDIANAPOLIS: A gunman killed at least eight people at a FedEx facility in the mid-western US city of Indianapolis before turning the gun on himself in the latest in a string of mass shootings in the country, authorities said on Friday.
The incident came a week after President Joe Biden branded US gun violence an “epidemic” and an “international embarrassment” as he waded into the tense debate over gun control, a powerful political issue in the United States.
The gunman responsible for the overnight shooting was not immediately identified and it was not known if he was an employee at the FedEx facility near the airport in the state capital of Indiana, deputy police chief Craig McCartt told
Police Release Names of 8 Victims in Indianapolis Shooting
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A gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility where he once worked and then killed himself. His mother told the police a year ago that she feared he would commit “suicide by cop.”
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INDIANAPOLIS Officials with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department identified the eight victims of the mass shooting at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis on Friday night, more than 20 hours after the gunman opened fire on Thursday.
Nine dead in shooting at FedEx facility in US; shooter named April 17, 2021
A group of crime scene investigators gather to speak in the parking lot of a FedEx SmartPost building in Indianapolis, Indiana. courtesy photo
WASHINGTON Police have named 19 years old Brandon Scott Hole of Indiana as the alleged shooter who opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis that left at least eight people dead and several injured in the state.
Special agent in charge of the Indianapolis field office, Paul Keenan, said the suspect s home was being searched by the FBI. Police scoured a Fedex facility in Indianapolis and searched the suspected gunman s home Friday looking for a motive for the latest mass shooting to rock the United States.