WATCH: FedEx shooting remembrance event at Lucas Oil Stadium
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By: Nikki DeMentri , Andrew Smith
Posted at 1:07 PM, May 01, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-01 19:13:38-04
INDIANAPOLIS â An event was held Saturday afternoon at Lucas Oil Stadium to remember those who were killed and injured in the mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
Several organizations, including the Sikh Coalition and United Sikhs, helped organized the event.
Many people who attended the event said it was part of the first steps in healing for the Indianapolis community.
There were messages of unity and calls for change as the event honored the memories, lives and legacies of the eight people killed in the shooting.
Barinder Singh Gill at California-based trucking company Jumbo Logistics
Paramjit Singh Sandhu, a 45-year-old truck driver, drove up to a medical facility in Sachse, Texas in December 2020 for what should have been a routine drug test.
A resident of Texas, Sandhu has worked in the trucking industry for more than two decades. Under federal law, truck drivers are mandated to undergo a drug test. But this time, when Sandhu arrived at a MedPost Urgent Care facility, a nurse refused to administer one unless he removed his “hat” – referring to his dastaar, or turban.
Sandhu told
Scroll.in he had taken a drug test just six months before this incident and another test at the very same facility in mid-2019, and did not have to remove his turban.