Sikh community mourns shooting victims

Police on Friday identified the man accused of killing eight people and wounding several others at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole. A FedEx spokeswoman confirmed he previously worked at the location where he opened fire shortly after 11 p.m. on Thursday. He killed himself as officers prepared to enter the building, police said.

Who else died in the shooting? The county coroner’s office identified the victims as 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. Four of them belonged to the Sikh community, a Sikh Coalition representative confirmed. A significant number of employees at the FedEx were Sikh, a religion founded in the Punjab region of India. Police have not disclosed a motive for the shooting. The FBI said it investigated a complaint against Hole last year and did not find he had a racially motivated ideology at the time.

Dig deeper: Read a statement from Indianapolis-area Sikh houses of worship about the effect of the shooting on their community.