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INDIANAPOLIS They sat packed in the Holiday Inn Express lobby, tired, tears in their eyes.
Several hours after eight people were shot to death at a FedEx facility late Thursday night, family members waited to hear if their loved ones who worked there were OK, if they were safe, if they were alive.
Some had pajamas on. One man had a sleeping child covered in a blanket on his shoulder. They wore masks to protect themselves from COVID-19.
“I’m just worried about my father, Ashlee Floyd said. Her father has worked at the FedEx facility near the airport for two decades. He usually calls his wife at 11:25 p.m., but didn t call on Thursday, she said.
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INDIANAPOLIS They sat packed in the Holiday Inn Express lobby, tired, tears in their eyes.
Several hours after eight people were shot to death at a FedEx facility late Thursday night, family members waited to hear if their loved ones who worked there were OK, if they were safe, if they were alive.
Some had pajamas on. One man had a sleeping child covered in a blanket on his shoulder. They wore masks to protect themselves from COVID-19.
Jose Lopez sat in a Holiday Inn Express for hours waiting for news of his friend at the nearby FedEx facility, where a gunman killed eight people late Thursday night.
“It is hard because if my friend had a phone, he would be able to contact me right away,” said Lopez, who has worked at the facility for about six months. “Even if it’s a message with one letter, you know he is living.”
FedEx prohibits employees from having their phones with them while they are working, a policy that came under scrutiny in aftermath of the mass shooting at the company s Ground Plainfield Operations Center that left eight people dead and dozens of families scrambling to get in touch with loved ones.
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