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US, Indianapolis shooting: 4 of the 8 victims were Sikh community members

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INDIANAPOLIS. Four of the eight victims of the shooting at the FedEx sorting facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, belonged to the Sikh community. The shooting was 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole, a former employee of the company. The Marion County coroner’s office identified the victims: Matthew R. Alexander, 32; Samaria Blackwell, 19; Amarjeet Johal, 66 years old; Jaswinder Kaur, 64 years old; Jaswinder Singh, 68 years old; Amarjit Sekhon, 48 years old; Karli Smith, 19; and John Weisert, 74. Deputy Chief of Police Craig McCartt, said Hole began randomly firing at people in the facility’s parking lot, killing four, before entering the building, where he fired more shots, killing four more. people and then take their own lives. It is unclear whether the intent was to target the Sikh community.

Police Chief Randal Taylor noted that a “significant” number of FedEx facility employees are members of the Sikh community. Some of them gathered at a local hotel on Friday looking for information on family and friends. “I have several family members working at the particular facility and they are traumatized – said Komal Chohan, reporting that Amarjeet Johal was his grandmother, in a statement released by the Sikh Coalition – My dwarfs, my family and our families shouldn’t feeling insecure at work, in their place of worship or anywhere else. Enough is enough: our community has suffered enough trauma ”. According to the coalition, there are between 8,000 and 10,000 Sikh Americans in Indiana. The faithful of the religion, which began in India in the 15th century, began settling in Indiana more than 50 years ago and in 1999 they opened the first place of worship, known as the gurdwara.

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