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At least eight people died in a shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis late Thursday, and the gunman was believed to have taken his own life, the police said.
Here’s what we know about the shooting so far.
What happened?
The police said officers arrived at the facility just after 11 p.m., responding to a report that shots had been fired.
Deputy Chief Craig McCartt of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said in a news conference on Friday that officers “found a very chaotic and active crime scene,” including several people injured and several people dead. Among them was the gunman, with “an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,” he said.
Chief McCartt said that, based on preliminary interviews, the gunman “pretty quickly started some random shooting outside the facility” after getting out of his car. Chief McCartt said the shooting took place both in the lot and in the building, and was over in “just a couple of minutes.”
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He said the authorities believed the gunman used a rifle.
Officer Genae Cook said at least five other people had been hospitalized with injuries, including one in critical condition. Two others were treated at the scene and released.
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Chief McCartt said the authorities were working to identify the victims and the gunman.
The FedEx warehouse where the shooting occurred is on the city’s southwest side, near the airport. The highway exit was blocked off by law enforcement vehicles.
Family members gathered for ews.
Officer Cook asked people who had been unable to make contact with family members who work at FedEx to gather at a Holiday Inn Express about a mile from the warehouse.
At about 2:45 a.m., more than 100 people waited anxiously for news at the hotel.
Patricia Holman, the senior chaplain for the police, was one of six chaplains who arrived at the hotel on Friday to provide counseling and comfort. She has been with the city for more than 30 years, first as a police officer, then as a chaplain.
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“This isn’t the first time six of us have responded to an event,” she said. “But this is the first time six of us have been necessary.”
“It never gets easier,” she added.
Reports are coming out from the scene.
A reporter with WRTV, an Indianapolis station, posted an interview on Twitter with a man who said he had been at the facility when the shooting broke out and later saw a body on the floor.
WISH, another local station, quoted an employee at the warehouse, Jeremiah Miller, as saying that he had heard up to 10 shots after finishing his shift.
“This made me stand up and actually look out the entrance door, and I saw a man with a submachine gun of some sort, an automatic rifle, and he was firing in the open,” Mr. Miller told the station. “I immediately ducked down and got scared and my friend’s mother, she came in and told us to get inside the car.”
Sarah Bahr reported from Indianapolis, and Mike Ives from Hong Kong. Derrick Bryson Taylor contributed reporting from London.
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