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Source: Reuters
FILE PHOTO: People embrace after learning that their loved one
was safe after a mass casualty shooting at the FedEx facility in
Indianapolis
Undated handout photo of Brandon Hole
A trace by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives turned up the two legal purchases last July and
September by Brandon Hole, 19, a former employee at the
facility, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said
on Saturday.
An IMDB spokesman on Sunday said the department was not
disclosing where the guns were bought.
The purchases were made a few months after Hole was briefly
placed under psychiatric detention in March and a shotgun was
seized from his home when his mother contacted law enforcement
to report he might try to commit "suicide by cop," according to
the FBI.
Based on items seen in his bedroom at that time, Hole was
interviewed in April, but the FBI agents found no criminal
violation and determined that he had no "racially motivated
violent extremism ideology," Paul Keenan, special agent in
charge of the FBI's Indianapolis field office, said on Friday.
The attack on Thursday in Indiana's state capital, the third
most populous city in the Midwest, was the latest in a spate of
deadly mass shootings in the United States over the past month.
Police are still investigating what motivated Hole to open fire.
Four members of the Sikh religious community - three women and a
man - were among the eight people killed.
The New York-based Sikh Coalition, a civil rights advocacy
group, has called for a full investigation into "the possibility
of bias as factor" in the FedEx killings.
(Reporting by Peter Szekely in New York; Editing by Daniel
Wallis)
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