The gunman who killed eight people in the FedEx warehouse has been identified as “a former company employee.”

Police in Indianapolis, United States, reported on Friday that the gunman who killed eight people at a FedEx facility before committing suicide had been identified: his name was Brandon Scott Hole, he was 19 years old and he was a former employee of the service. corporate postcards.

Indianapolis Police Deputy Director of Investigations Craig McCartt explained at a press conference that until a “positive identification” is made, in conjunction with forensics, the identity of the attacker will not be revealed.

In the same way, the coroner’s office has not yet identified the deceased. “What we usually do is wait until all the evidence has been gathered. We have not yet been able to come to the scene to confirm any identity, ”said Alfarena McGinty, deputy director of the Marion County coroner.

FBI Regional Special Agent Paul Keenan noted that it is still “premature” to talk about the aggressor’s motivation and stressed that there were “no more threats”. Police Chief Randal Taylor mentioned a “significant” number of Sikh religious workers at the facility.

At around 11:00 p.m. local time (03:00 GMT Friday) on Thursday, a gunman opened fire at point blank range at a warehouse owned by the FedEx postal service company, located near the Indianapolis airport.

Authorities have found four of the deceased outside the center and four others inside, McCartt revealed. “When the police arrived, they found a chaotic and active crime scene, found several casualties, injured and several fatalities, as well as the suspect apparently dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”, details the policeman.

Through interviews with witnesses, the authorities found that the suspect arrived at the scene in a vehicle and began shooting indiscriminately in the warehouse parking lot and then entered the scene before committing suicide. “He had no confrontation with anyone, no discussion, he just started shooting indiscriminately,” McCartt said.

For his part, the city’s mayor, Democrat Joe Hogsett, recalled that last week he signed a letter with 150 other mayors asking the Senate to consider a legislative proposal to expand background checks on buyers of d ‘firearms in the case of transactions between individuals. .

This incident is the fifth multi-victim shooting in the country in recent weeks. The one that happened on March 22 in a supermarket in Colorado, with 10 dead, is the one that killed the most. Despite the pandemic that has forced many Americans to stay at home, 2020 was the year with the highest number of gun violence deaths in the past two decades.

With information from AP and EFE

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