IN - 8 Dead at Indianapolis FedEx Facility Mass Shooting, 15 Apr 2021

[StarryStarryNight]

19-year-old ID'd as gunman killing 8 at FedEx facility near IND airport - WISH-TV | Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic

WISHtv identifies the shooter in this article.

 

[JoeFromLB]

Shooter identified as 20-year-old Brandon Scott Hole.

Bob Segall, WTHR journalist, wrote, “An IMPD police report states Brandon Hole was arrested on March 3, 2020, when police were dispatched to a far Eastside house (the same house police and ATF searched this morning following the FedEx shooting). The report says police ‘seized shotgun from dangerous person.'”

According to the IMPD report, “behavioral health unit initiated immediate detention on male reported to have voiced suicidal ideation,” wrote Segall. “It says the arrested male purchased a shotgun within 24 hours and voiced suicidal ideation before police transported him to a hospital.”

Brandon Scott Hole: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

 

[CrimeAway]

The shooter was only 19 years old.

What on earth is going on???

ETA: I think I understand more about serial killers, than I do about these mass shootings. It just doesn't make sense to me.

 

[IceIce9]

What on earth is going on???

ETA: I think I understand more about serial killers, than I do about these mass shootings. It just doesn't make sense to me.

13 Investigates has learned Hole had a previous encounter with police during a mental health call in 2020. A behavioral unit was called to his home in March of 2020 on reports of a man voicing suicidal ideas. The unit encountered Hole, who had purchased a shotgun within 24 hours of the call.

The behavioral unit immediately detained him and took Hole to the hospital.
What we know about the Indianapolis FedEx mass shooting suspect

 

[margarita25]

 

[tlcya]

during the 2020 incident I imagine he was held at hospital for eval on a 5150. Other articles state they had encountered him in an unspecified way in 2013 (which would have been when he was still a minor around 11 or 12)

It sounds as if this young man may have been suffering mental health issues for at least the last year and perhaps longer.

A family member reached out to LE to try to prevent this. And yet this mass shooting still happened. So sad for all involved. So difficult to get someone the help they need, especially when they don't want it. once they are an adult it becomes so much harder.

 

[Katerz]

All of these mass shootings are the reason I get severe anxiety when I leave my house. We had a shooting here in the town I live in a couple years ago. The guy walked into a bank and executed women.

 

[SouthAussie]

Thursday's mass shooting was at least the third such incident this year in Indianapolis alone.

Five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot and killed in January, and a man was accused of killing three adults and a child before abducting his daughter during at argument at a home in March.

Kamala Harris says US 'violence must end', after another mass shooting

 

[coffeeandacig]

If I read the article correctly, Mom sounds like she did all the right things to try to keep him from harming himself and others. So difficult for parents to find a long term placement, even for suicidal/homicidal mentally ill.

I'm not very familiar with firearm laws in Indiana, but a background check here would've denied him owning any and all weapons. And they're probably much stricter in Indiana.

 

[zencompass]

Updated information and details:

Brandon Scott Hole: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Excerpts:

"Brandon Scott Hole died at the scene, police believe from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Hole was a former employee at the FedEx Ground facility, The Wall Street Journal reported and FedEx confirmed. He was fired from FedEx, family and friends told Fox59 reporter Angela Ganote. He last worked there in 2020."

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"When police arrived at the scene, they found the wounded in cars, inside an office and the facility, and around the parking lot, according to scanner audio, which you can listen to later in this story. Authorities described the situation as an “active shooter” incident at one point on the scanner."

 

[MimosaMornings]

All of these mass shootings are the reason I get severe anxiety when I leave my house. We had a shooting here in the town I live in a couple years ago. The guy walked into a bank and executed women.

When a guy can walk into a home on a beautiful spring day and callously kill a grandfather, grandmother and their two young grandchildren plus two men working on their ac unit - I’m not sure home is safe anymore.

 

[Katerz]

When a guy can walk into a home on a beautiful spring day and callously kill a grandfather, grandmother and their two young grandchildren plus two men working on their ac unit - I’m not sure home is safe anymore.

True. However I personally feel safer In my home.. for now

 

[coffeeandacig]

When a guy can walk into a home on a beautiful spring day and callously kill a grandfather, grandmother and their two young grandchildren plus two men working on their ac unit - I’m not sure home is safe anymore.

Oh yes...the former NFL football player. Again, just goes to show that access to mental health treatment needs to be addressed. Too many untreated suicidal and homicidal people walking around. Look at that lovely 19 year old college freshman, who just took her own life. Mental illness is the big elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about.

 

[zencompass]

Tragically, it sounds like it was the beginning of a shift change, with people coming into work and leaving.

The folllowing excerpt is from someone whose friend's Mom was dropping him and his friend off at work:

Brandon Scott Hole: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

“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,” Jeremiah Miller told WISH. “I immediately ducked down and got scared and my friend’s mother, she came in and told us to get inside the car.”

 

[Gibbo214]

If I read the article correctly, Mom sounds like she did all the right things to try to keep him from harming himself and others. So difficult for parents to find a long term placement, even for suicidal/homicidal mentally ill.

I'm not very familiar with firearm laws in Indiana, but a background check here would've denied him owning any and all weapons. And they're probably much stricter in Indiana.

He was able to buy the first one. And it seems that he has been mentally ill for some time.

 

[zencompass]

Each individual is unique, of course, and for me, right now I'm going to follow the following advice (I'll be back tomorrow on the thread).

I'm fine but I do want to step away from the news until tomorrow. This is just me.

Coping in the Aftermath of a Shooting (American Counseling Association)

Excerpt:

• "Avoid overexposure to media. While it is important to stay informed, media portrayals of shootings and mass deaths have been shown to cause acute stress and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Limit your exposure and take a break from news sources."

 

[oceanblueeyes]

WISHtv identifies the shooter in this article.

19-year-old ID'd as gunman killing 8 at FedEx facility near IND airport - WISH-TV | Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic

Someone asked today about why the FBI was involved. Its seems the FBI already had dealings with him or he was on their radar.

Jmho

 

[SandyQLS]

The shooter's photo has been published now. Looks like a blue background DL photo.

PICTURED: FedEx gunman, 19, was an ex-employee who had 'been fired' | Daily Mail Online

 

[oceanblueeyes]

during the 2020 incident I imagine he was held at hospital for eval on a 5150. Other articles state they had encountered him in an unspecified way in 2013 (which would have been when he was still a minor around 11 or 12)

It sounds as if this young man may have been suffering mental health issues for at least the last year and perhaps longer.

A family member reached out to LE to try to prevent this. And yet this mass shooting still happened. So sad for all involved. So difficult to get someone the help they need, especially when they don't want it. once they are an adult it becomes so much harder.

When did she reach out to them? Was it right before he committed mass murder or in March over a year ago?

Did FedEx know he was dangerous?

Has it been revealed why he wasn't an employee of FedEx anymore? I wonder if he made dangerous threats?

I can understand why anyone may feel they want to kill themselves, but for the life of me,I will never understand why they go on a sadistically cruel murderous rampage... murdering so many innocent victims, and destroying so many lives of their love ones who's lives has forever been changed all because of this one man who wanted to murder in mass.

Jmho

 

[Baciagalupo]

Well, sounds exactly like a person who shouldn't have access to a firearm.