At least four of the victims of an April 15 late night shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, are Sikh Americans, according to the Sikh Coalition and the SikhsPAC.
Nineteen-year-old Brandon Hole killed eight people and left several others wounded before shooting himself, reports said. Hole was a former employee at the FedEx site and worked there in 2020. FBI agents interviewed Hole last year, after his mother called police to say that her son might commit suicide by cop, the bureau said in a statement April 16.
Police have not yet established a motive for the mass shooting, the sixth such incident in 2021.
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The 19-year-old gunman who killed eight workers and himself at an Indianapolis FedEx centre was a former employee who was placed under psychiatric detention last year after his mother reported concerns he might commit “suicide by cop,” police and FBI said.
Four members of the Sikh religious community – three women and a man – were among the dead in Thursday night’s gun rampage, according to a local Sikh leader who said he had been briefed by the victims’ families.
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Updated Apr 17, 2021 | 08:22 IST
The attacker, identified as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole of Indiana, died by suicide after the shooting, taking the toll to nine. Representational Image | Photo Credit: PTI
Washington: As many as eight people, including four Sikhs, were killed and five others injured in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in the US state of Indiana on early Friday morning.
“We have lost eight team members in this senseless act of violence. Our deepest sympathies with the families of those team members,” Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Chairman and CEO said.
The attacker, identified as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole of Indiana, died by suicide after the shooting, taking the toll to nine.