Norwich – Indianapolis might be about 900 miles from Connecticut, but local Sikh community leader Swaranjit Singh Khalsa said he has received phone calls from Sikhs across the state asking: “Is it safe for me to go to work today? Was this a hate crime?”
Khalsa, president of the Sikh Sewak Society International, USA, and director of the new Sikh Art Gallery in Norwich, said Monday the question is jolting, even though authorities in Indianapolis have said the investigation thus far has revealed no motive in Thursday night’s deadly mass shooting of eight FedEx employees there.
Four of the eight people killed were members of the Sikh community. One was a family member of Khalsa’s friend, a fellow member of the Sikh Parliament, who lives in Indiana. Khalsa said about 10,000 Sikhs live in Indiana.
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