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.
Indiana’s Red Flag law could have stopped 19 year-old Brandon Hole from legally buying the guns he used to kill eight people at a FedEx facility last week,
A prosecutor in the Indiana county where a former FedEx employee allegedly shot and killed eight people said Monday that the suspected gunman never appeared for a hearing under Indiana’s “red flag” law after the man
April 19, 2021
Just days after Vaisakhi the harvest festival that marks the start of the Sikh New Year America’s Sikh community was left petrified by a bloody massacre.
Among the eight victims who died in the mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx Facility on April 15, four were Sikh.
“I have several family members who work at the particular facility and are traumatised,” community member Komal Chohan, whose 66-year-old grandmother Amarjeet Kaur Johal was among the victims, said in a Sikh Coalition press release. “My
nani (grandmother), my family, and our families should not feel unsafe at work, at their place of worship, or anywhere. Enough is enough our community has been through enough trauma.” Johal was found with a paycheck in hand, ready to leave to celebrate a grandchild’s birthday.
“This individual was taken and treated by medical professionals and he was cut loose,” and was not even prescribed any medication, Mears said. The risk is, if we move forward with that (red flag) process and lose, we have to give that firearm back to that person. That’s not something we were willing to do.”
Indianapolis police have previously said that they never did return the shotgun to the teen. Authorities say he used two “assault-style” rifles to gun down eight people at the FedEx facility last Thursday before he killed himself.
“There are a number of loopholes in the practical application of this law. . It does not necessarily give everyone the tools they need to make the most well-informed decisions,” Mears said.