Washington: Four Sikhs were killed and five others were injured in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in the US State of Indiana polis. According to the sources community leaders the shooter was identified as Brandon Scott Hole a 19-year-old of Indiana, allegedly died by suicide after the shooting on late Thursday night at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis, taking the toll to nine.

About 90 % of the workers at this delivery service facility are said to be Indian-Americans, mostly from the Sikh community. “This is very heart breaking. The Sikh community is devastated by this tragic incident,” community leader Gurinder Singh Khalsa told media over the phone after meeting family members of the employees of the FedEx facility.

Late Friday night, the Marion County Coroner’s Office and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) released the names of the victims: Amarjeet Johal (66), Jasvinder Kaur (64), Amarjit Skhon (48) and Jaswinder Singh (68).

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris expressed condolences over the tragic killings.“Vice President Harris and I have been briefed by our homeland security team on the mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis where a lone shooter murdered eight people and wounded several more in the dark of night, Biden said in a statement.