Eight killed in shooting at US FedEx site
Published on: Friday, April 16, 2021
By: AFP
The Fedex facility is located close to the international airport. (File photo: AFP)
INDIANAPOLIS: Police in Indianapolis say eight people have been killed in shooting at a FedEx facility near the US city's international airport.
All of the victims were found at the facility where a gunman had opened fire last night, police spokeswoman Genae Cook told reporters.
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Several others were transported to hospital, police said, but did not disclose precise numbers.
Police said the gunman took his own life following the shooting.
"We have multiple people with injuries consistent with gunshot wounds," Ms Cook had said in an earlier briefing.
A FedEx spokesperson confirmed to AFP that its facility was the scene of the shooting, and said the company was co-operating with authorities.
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"We are aware of the tragic shooting at our ground facility near the Indianapolis airport," the company said in a statement.
"Safety is our top priority, and our thoughts are with all those who are affected."
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The facility for the delivery company is reported to employ more than 4,000 people.
Live video showed police tape at the scene of the incident, which follows several mass shootings in recent weeks in the US.
One man who said he works at the plant told local broadcaster WISH-TV he saw the gunman start shooting.
"I saw a man with a sub-machine gun of some sort, an automatic rifle, and he was firing in the open. I immediately ducked down and got scared," Jeremiah Miller said.
At the end of last month, four people, including a child, were shot dead in an office building in southern California.
On 22 March, ten people were killed in a shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.
That came less than a week after a man shot and killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at spas in Atlanta, Georgia.
Nearly 40,000 people in the United States die each year from guns, more than half of those being suicides.
The issue of gun regulation in the United States is politically fraught.
President Joe Biden this month announced six executive measures he said would help stem the gun violence crisis.
"It's an international embarrassment," the Democrat told Congress members and gun control activists at a White House ceremony.
The move was immediately attacked by Republicans, with the party's senior leader in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, warning of "unconstitutional overreach."
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