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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police were working Friday to identify a gunman & determine his motive for opening fire at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, killing 8 people & taking his own life in the latest mass shooting to rock the U.S.
Deputy Chief Craig McCartt of the Indianapolis police said the gunman started randomly shooting at people in the parking lot late Thursday night & then went into the building & continued firing. He said the gunman apparently died by suicide shortly before police entered the building.
“There was no confrontation with anyone that was there,” he said. “There was no disturbance, there was no argument. He just appeared to randomly start shooting.”
McCartt said 4 people were killed outside the FedEx processing facility & another 4 inside. Several people were also wounded, including 5 taken to the hospital.
The carnage took just a couple of minutes. “It did not last very long,” he said.
Officials with the coroner’s office said they have not been able to get to the scene to identify the victims because evidence is still being collected.
In the wake of the shootings, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said the community must guard against resignation & “the assumption that this is how it must be & we might as well get used to it.”
It was the latest in a recent string of mass shootings across the U.S. Last month, 8 people were fatally shot at massage businesses across the Atlanta area & 10 died in gunfire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.
A witness said that he was working inside the building when he heard several gunshots in rapid succession.
“I see a man come out with a rifle in his hand & he starts firing and he starts yelling stuff that I could not understand,” Levi Miller told WTHR-TV. “What I ended up doing was ducking down to make sure he did not see me because I thought he would see me and he would shoot me.”
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