Police ID gunman who killed 8 people at an Indianapolis FedEx facility as 19-year-old former employee By Jason Hanna, Amanda Watts and Evan Perez, CNN Updated 10:08 PM ET, Fri April 16, 2021 (CNN) Police arrived "to a very chaotic scene, with victims and witnesses running everywhere" at a FedEx Ground facility near Indianapolis' main airport late Thursday night, where a former employee shot and killed eight people and wounded several others, an Indianapolis police official told CNN. Deputy Chief Craig McCartt on Friday afternoon identified the gunman as 19-year-old Brandon Hole, who was last employed by FedEx in 2020. Hole was found dead of a gunshot wound that appeared to be self-inflicted, McCartt said. In March 2020, Hole's mother told law enforcement that he might attempt "suicide by cop," the FBI's Indianapolis office said in a statement. Special Agent in Charge Paul Keenan said Hole was placed on an immediate mental health temporary hold by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. He also said a shotgun was seized at Hole's residence. Police identified the gunman as 19-year-old Brandon Hole. "Based on items observed in the suspect's bedroom at that time, he was interviewed by the FBI in April 2020," the statement said. "No Racially Motivated Violent Extremism (RMVE) ideology was identified during the course of the assessment and no criminal violation was found. The shotgun was not returned to the suspect." McCartt told reporters that Indianapolis police found Hole's name in two past incident reports. The deputy chief didn't have information about the first report. The details he described from a 2020 report align with the FBI statement. Authorities were warned about FedEx suspect's potential for violence, sources say Investigators are trying to determine motive and were searching what they believe is the suspected gunman's home, Keenan told reporters late Friday morning. When asked what brought the suspected gunman to the FedEx facility Thursday around 11 p.m., McCartt said: "I wish we could answer that." On Friday evening, Indianapolis police released the names of the eight deceased victims. They are: Matthew R. Alexander, 32; Samaria Blackwell, 19; Amarjeet Johal, 66; Jaswinder Kaur, 64; Jaswinder Singh, 68; Amarjit Sekhon, 48; Karli Smith, 19; and John Weisert, 74. A statement by IMPD said the next of kin has been notified by the Marion County Coroner's Office. The cause of death will be determined after autopsies are complete, according to the statement. IMPD said the names of those injured are not being released. The mass shooting is the country's deadliest since 10 people were killed March 22 at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. Thursday night's killings began when a gunman "got out of his car, and pretty quickly started some random shooting outside the facility," McCartt said. The gunman then "went inside and did not get very far into the facility at all," while shooting others there, McCartt told CNN earlier Friday. Two employees inside the building at the time heard as many as 10 gunshots, they told CNN affiliate WISH. The men left the building and watched as about 30 police cars responded, they said. "Thank God for being here because I thought I was going to get shot," one of them, Jeremiah Miller, told WISH. Investigators have heard the shooting lasted "just a couple minutes -- that it did not last very long," McCartt said. "My understanding is, by the time that officers entered ... the situation was over -- that the suspect took his life very shortly before officers entered the facility," McCartt told reporters. There were at least 100 people in the facility when the shooting began, he said. Many were on their dinner break or changing shifts. Four people were found dead outside and four others, not counting the shooter, were dead inside, McCartt said. The incident marks at least the 45th mass shooting in the United States since the Atlanta-area spa shootings on March 16. CNN considers an incident to be a mass shooting if four or more people, excluding the gunman, are wounded or killed by gunfire. President Joe Biden ordered flags at federal facilities to be lowered to half-staff and urged Congress to act on firearm legislation, calling gun violence an "epidemic." Several people wounded McCartt said four survivors were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds and a fifth person sought treatment in another county for a gunshot wound. Two people were treated at the scene, he said. Biden orders flags to half-staff as country mourns another mass shooting: 'We must act' The gunman had at least one weapon, which investigators believe was a rifle, McCartt told reporters. Police early Friday were trying to make sense of the crime scene while relatives of FedEx employees gathered at a nearby hotel,which officials offered as a place where they could await news, reunite with the workers and meet with police chaplains. "Many of the employees did not have cell phones on them in the facility," and so many survivors were not immediately able to contact their families, McCartt told CNN. Several people tearfully embraced as they reunited Friday morning at the hotel, video from CNN affiliate WISH showed. When asked Friday morning whether witnesses indicated that FedEx or security personnel had any indication that something like Friday's shooting would happen, McCartt said no. "We're still working with FedEx security for anything that might have been an indication this was going to happen right now," McCartt said at the Friday morning news conference. 'They didn't sound like gunshots at first' FedEx worker Timothy Boillat and his coworker heard what they thought initially were "two loud metal clangs" when the shooting started, he told CNN affiliate WRTV. "They didn't sound like gunshots at first ... Then, we heard three more shots, and then my buddy ... saw someone running out of the building." Boillat said. "And then more shots went off. Somebody went behind their car to the trunk and got another gun," Boillat said, without saying whether that person was the shooter. "And then I saw one body on the floor," Boillat told WRTV. Police are asking anyone who was at the scene and may have left for safety or for medical treatment to contact them to provide information on the shooting. Family members await information about their loved ones. Governor and other officials offer condolences Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said the process of healing will be impacted in part by what conversations the nation has about cycles of violence "driven by readily accessible guns." "We must guard against resignation or even despair -- the assumption that this is simply how it must be and that we might as well get used to it. We need the courage that compels courageous acts that push past weariness," Hogsett said. FedEx released a statement saying it was "deeply shocked and saddened by the loss of our team members." The US has reported at least 45 mass shootings in the last month "Our most heartfelt sympathies are with all those affected by this senseless act of violence. The safety of our team members is our top priority, and we are fully cooperating with investigating authorities," FedEx said. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said Friday is "another heartbreaking day and I'm shaken by the mass shooting at the FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis." "In times like this, words like justice and sorrow fall short in response for those senselessly taken. Our thoughts are with the families, friends, coworkers and all those affected by this terrible situation," Holcomb said. Flags will be lowered to half-staff from Friday until sunset Tuesday "in remembrance of those we've lost," Holcomb said. "Nothing we learn can heal the wounds of those who escaped with their lives, but who will now ... endure the memories of this horrific crime," Hogsett said. US Rep. Andre Carson, whose district includes Indianapolis, tweeted that he was heartbroken by the mass shooting. "I am communicating with local authorities to get all details of the attack and my office stands ready to help everyone affected any way we can," he said. https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/us/indianapolis-shooting-fedex-facility/index.html ---------- wrbtrader
It's a no win situation...there will never be co-operation to fix the problem and its just too deep in society and gun ownership in our constitution. New laws aimed at fixing the problem...those that want to do a mass shooting will just figure out a way to navigate around the new laws. GOP will continue blaming it on Democratic run cities. Democrats will continue blaming it on Republican run states or show the shooter in a Democratic run city is someone from a Republican run state. States are interconnected via freeways, highways and roads...a law enforced in one state...a person can just drive to another state or import weapons into another state that has lax laws... For example, Chicago has a gun control problem but people can easily go to the nearby Republican state to get their weapons or parts of the weapons to make the weapon more deadlier. Its a well known fact that people in Chicago just drive to Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota and Kentucky to get their weapons or someone from those states drive across the border to import the weapons into Chicago. Those listed states above are typically Republican run states that feeds a Democratic city like Chicago with weapons...it's good business for those states...just drive across the border to sell weapons to the ethnic communities willing to buy the weapons. It has always been that way since the early 1900's since the big influx of people into the United States from immigration especially more so when the Mafia and corrupt politicians ran Chicago during the bootleg days. Indianapolis is a Democrat run city within a Republican state even though we will rarely hear about mass shootings in Republican cities if the mass shootings was not gang related. For example, when I initially started this thread...I listed 22 cities with mass shootings because that's what the media showed. In reality, there has actually been 45th mass shootings in 2021. Thus, for example, 6 family members killed in a murder / suicide in a Republican city or Republican state will only make the local news... Not even listed nor news coverage on the National level unless it occurred at a business, involving shooting at police, shooting at a University / school or car chase across state lines. Simply, the GOP or those they represent in their states...do not see gun control the same way the Democrats see it. That's Fucked Up They made gun control to save lives too political just like they have done with the Covid Pandemic health crisis...both a crisis and costing more lives. Both that can easily be manage if they remove the politics instead of just saying a prayer for the lives lost. wrbtrader
Yes, his mother was into incest like a lot of LibTards are. His mother/father probably smoked marijuana, drank alcohol and smoked meth like a lot of LibTards do. Yes, he was probably a young man who found himself gay as hell and was angry about it like a lot of LibTards are. And he most likely wanted a transgender sex change like a lot of Libtards do. And he probably wanted to go into the Military as a transgender little girl like a lot of LibTards want to. He had gun(s)? taken away from him before previously and was spanked like a little baby like the LibTards want to see. Maybe they should of sent a domestic person in to handle the shooting and everything would of been hunky dory after that? I'm sure defunding the Police would of been really helpful in this case. (Retarded Libtard action).
Well, since he killed himself with the rifle to his head, imagine that picture now but with only half a head. I am assuming he put the barrel in his mouth or under chin. "WHAT is the airspeed velocity of 19-YO brain matter?" "What do you mean, a Republican or Liberal brain??" "Wha? Er, well, I don't know tha...AAAIIIIEEEEEEEEEaaahhh......"
Not rocket science - the states with the highest gun ownership per capita also have the highest gun related deaths. Obviously mental illness factors in big time, mix it with easy gun access & you have a perfect storm. Sure does not help that the GOP opposes universal background checks when 97% of the public including the vast majority of gun owners favor it. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/gun-deaths-per-capita-by-state
The constituents of the GOP needs to convince the GOP about the connection between gun related deaths, locations of high gun ownership and mental illness... They all need to talk and get something passed. Yet, it boils down to people taking it seriously to report their friend or relative that's mentally unstable and has assault weapons / ammunition stocked up in their homes. wrbtrader