Four members of Sikh community among dead in Indianapolis FedEx shooting -group
By Alexandra Ulmer
Reuters
(Reuters) -Four members of the Sikh religious community, three women and one man, were killed in a Thursday night shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis that claimed the lives of eight workers, a community group and local leader said on Friday. Out of eight, four are Sikh community members, said businessman Gurinder Singh Khalsa, who identified himself as a leader of the local Sikh community and said he had spoken with the families of those killed.
He said the FedEx operations center near the city s international airport was known for providing employment to older members of the Sikh community who did not necessarily speak fluent English. Thousands of Sikh-Americans live in Indiana, according to community members.
Since the news of four members of the Sikh religious community getting killed in the mass shooting has surfaced online, many believed that it might be another incident of hate crime.
Leaders of the Sikh Satsang of Indianapolis participate in an interview addressing their grief in the parking lot of their temple on April 16, 2021 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Four Sikh members of the community were killed during a mass shooting at a FedEx Ground Facility that left at least eight people dead and five wounded on the evening of April 15. Police have identified the suspect as former FedEx employee, Brandon Scott Hole, who died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after the shooting. (Getty Images)
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.
Brandon Scott Hole, 19, and a former employee at the facility in Indianapolis carried out the mass shooting on late Thursday before allegedly committing suicide.