Four members of the Sikh community among victims in Indianapolis shooting

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Four members of the Sikh community were among eight people who died in a shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis on Thursday.

The Sikh Coalition confirmed that four members of its community were killed in the shooting before Indianapolis police identified all eight victims.

The victims were identified as 32-year-old Matthew R. Alexander, 19-year-old Samaria Blackwell, 66-year-old Amarjeet Johal, 64-year-old Jaswinder Kaur, 68-year-old Jaswinder Singh, 48-year-old Amarjit Sekhon, 19-year-old Karlie Smith and 74-year-old John Weisert.

Authorities have said the shooter was a 19-year-old former FedEx employee and that his mother had warned police in 2020 that he would attempt to “commit suicide by a cop.”

The suspected shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The fatal attack late Thursday marked just the latest in a wave of mass shootings across the country.

A shooting earlier this year at spas in Atlanta also killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, raising alarm about the increasing violence against Asian Americans and islanders in the Pacific.

Several Democrats have called for Congressional gun control reforms in light of the shootings.

“Gun violence is an epidemic in America. But we must not accept it. We must act”, President BidenJoe BidenBiden’s administration is still taking land near the border despite plans to stop building a wall: Olympics report, climate on the agenda for Biden meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Boehner on Afghanistan: ‘It it’s time to withdraw the troops’ MORE said in a statement Friday.

“Too many Americans die every day from gun violence. It stains our character and penetrates into the soul of our nation, ”he added. “We can and must do more to act and save lives.”

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