Shooting in Indianapolis

[Premi5]

From BBC website

At least four were Sikh

 

The gunman who killed eight people at a FedEx facility in the US city of Indianapolis was a former employee, the company says.

Police named the suspect as 19-year-old Brandon Hole, who last worked at the company in 2020.

He began shooting "randomly" almost immediately after exiting his car, according to police.

Seven people were also injured and the gunman apparently killed himself before police arrived, officials say.

This is the latest incident in a recent increase in mass shootings across the US.

At least four of those killed were members of the Sikh community, according to local media. Gurinder Singh Khalsa, a leader of the local Sikh community told Reuters news agency that the FedEx facility was known for employing members of the community who did not speak fluent English.

[GurjantGnostic]

2 hours ago, Premi5 said:

From BBC website

At least four were Sikh

 

The gunman who killed eight people at a FedEx facility in the US city of Indianapolis was a former employee, the company says.

Police named the suspect as 19-year-old Brandon Hole, who last worked at the company in 2020.

He began shooting "randomly" almost immediately after exiting his car, according to police.

Seven people were also injured and the gunman apparently killed himself before police arrived, officials say.

This is the latest incident in a recent increase in mass shootings across the US.

At least four of those killed were members of the Sikh community, according to local media. Gurinder Singh Khalsa, a leader of the local Sikh community told Reuters news agency that the FedEx facility was known for employing members of the community who did not speak fluent English.

The odds of hitting four Sikhs in a mass shooting isn't high. That's weird. 

[Ranjeet01]

From twitter, the FedEx building apparently has 90 percent of Sikh background.

But out of the 8 killed, 4 were Sikh and 4 were non Sikh.

However, Sikh twitter is considering this as a hate crime. But if there are non Sikh killed also, can it be an anti-Sikh hate crime. 

If a lone gunman who happens to be white and kills white people, black people, brown people. Does the fact that he killed black people and brown people make him a racist?

 

[GurjantGnostic]

5 minutes ago, Ranjeet01 said:

From twitter, the FedEx building apparently has 90 percent of Sikh background.

But out of the 8 killed, 4 were Sikh and 4 were non Sikh.

However, Sikh twitter is considering this as a hate crime. But if there are non Sikh killed also, can it be an anti-Sikh hate crime. 

If a lone gunman who happens to be white and kills white people, black people, brown people. Does the fact that he killed black people and brown people make him a racist?

 

If it was the intent, yes. 

[GurjantGnostic]

Usually workplace shooters have a main target or two and a lot of fallout. Who was he after? Why?

[intrigued]

He probably got fired due to Covid and had a mental health breakdown or something...

[intrigued]

[intrigued]

Apparently, the gunman committed suicide but a self inflicted gun shot. I think it's very likely he had some mental issues as his mother informed law enforcement last year that he might commit suicide by cop. Waiting for link to be approved and you guys can see more information...

[intrigued]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/us/indianapolis-shooting-fedex.html

[Premi5]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/indianapolis-fedex-lawyers-sikh-sikh-coalition-b1991963.html

 

Indianapolis denies FedEx shooting victims' payout request

The city of Indianapolis has effectively denied a request for over $2 million in compensation made by three members of the Sikh community affected by a mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility

Via AP news wire

12 hours ago

The city of Indianapolis effectively denied a request for over $2 million in compensation made by three members of the Sikh community affected by a mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility last April.

Harpreet Singh, Lakhwinder Kaur and Gurinder Bains, who were injured or lost family members in the April 15 attack, each requested $700,000 in damages from the city. They claimed that local officials failed to pursue a court hearing that could have prevented the shooter from accessing guns used in the attack.

 

The city did not respond to the tort claim by the Jan. 10 deadline, The Indianapolis Star reported.

Government agencies that receive such notices can agree to pay the victims or deny the request. The city's silence is the equivalent of a denial, which opens the door for victims to respond with a lawsuit.

The Sikh Coalition told The Star, however, that its lawyers will not be pursuing a lawsuit.

 

Lawyers for the victims said the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the Marion County prosecutor’s office failed to follow Indiana’s red flag law when they decided not to file a case with the courts to suspend the shooter’s gun rights in March of 2020.

The “red flag” legislation, which became law in Indiana in 2005, allows police or the courts to seize guns from people who show signs that they might be violent.

The lawyers said the law doesn’t give the authorities discretion and that they must file such cases with the courts. Had such a case been filed, the mass shooting could have been prevented, according to the letter that serves as a tort claim notice, which precedes a formal lawsuit.

Police said Brandon Scott Hole, 19, used the attack as an act of “suicidal murder.” Eight employees, including four members of the city’s Sikh community, were killed and five others were injured.

 

Hole, a former FedEx employee, was able to legally purchase the two rifles used in the shooting, even after his mother called police in March of 2020 to say her son might attempt “suicide by cop.” Police seized a pump-action shotgun from Hole, then 18, when responding to his mother’s call.

Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears has since faced sharp criticism for choosing not to pursue the red flag court hearing that could have prevented Hole from accessing the guns used in the April attack. Mears said shortly after the attack that prosecutors didn’t pursue such a hearing because they didn’t have enough time under the law to definitively demonstrate his propensity for suicidal thoughts.