Details are starting to appear about those who died during the Indianapolis FedEx shooting, where one of the victims had just earned her first salary.
Karli Smith, 19, “started bending over and getting a job and taking life a little more seriously,” said a family member of the young woman, one of eight shot dead after a former employee caught fire in Indianapolis on Thursday night. stabbed.
“She was a sweet, beautiful, and youthful teenage girl,” the family member told the Indianapolis Star of Smith, who graduated from high school last year.
Samaria Blackwell (also 19) joined FedEx just two months ago.
She was “such a loving, caring daughter to our family’s baby,” her parents Jeff and Tammi Blackwell said in a statement.
Matthew Alexander, 32, a former student at Butler University in Indianapolis, played baseball at Avon High School, where he was a member of the National Honor Society.
“He was a wonderful brother, son, grandson, cousin, cousin and friend. He was only 32 years old and had a great career at FedEx. He was gentle, friendly, loved sports and was really one of the “good guys”, cousin Sheryl Richardson wrote on Facebook. “If you know him, you like him. There are no words to say how much he loved or how much he will be missed. ”
John Steven Weiseret (74) was married for 50 years when he was ‘killed’ by a ‘sick, depraved man in revenge against a former employer,’ his son Mike wrote on social media.
‘I do not understand and will never understand the reason for this kind of random violence. He was a GOOD man. He was a great father. He was a wonderfully devoted and faithful husband of almost 50 years to my mother. “He was a man who worked very hard all his life to provide the best home for his family,” Mike Weiseret wrote.
Shooter Brandon Scott Hole started his rampage in the FedEx parking lot, where he randomly started shooting with his weapon, killing four people, according to police.
When he was inside, he killed four more people before shooting himself dead. Hole last worked for the company in 2020.
Police have yet to specify what type of gun Hole used, to identify the weapon only as an assault rifle and refuse to give more details when The Post reaches it.
One eyewitness, Fedi employee Levi Miller, said in the show “Today” on Friday that the shooter was a figure with a hood with “an AR in his hand.”
Among the victims were four members of Indiana’s burgeoning Sikh community, including Amarjit Sekhon. The 48-year-old mother of two boys, aged 22 and 16, had just started working at the FedEx plant in November.
“She was a workaholic, she always worked,” said her brother-in-law Kuldip Sekhon.
Jasvinder Kaur, 50, had a daughter and a son and moved to the United States in 2018. According to the Indy Star, she sent money from her job at FedEx to help support her son in India.
Jaswinder Singh was 68. His family told Indian media Singh moved to the United States eight years ago.
It’s ‘very sad’, Dalbar Singh, Singh’s cousin, told Republic World.
Amarjeet Kaur Johal, 66, was a grandmother who planned to work a double shift on Thursday so she could take pictures on Friday, according to a grandson’s Twitter account.
“I have several family members who work at the facility in question and have been traumatized,” the grandson wrote.
That so many of the victims were Sikhs provoked outrage and calls for action against those targeting coloreds.
“It was no coincidence that the shooter targeted this particular FedEx facility where he worked and knew that Sikhs were overwhelmingly manned,” the national Sikh coalition said in a statement on Saturday.
“It was not an easy crime or an attack. It was one of methodical planning and selection that exactly a month ago reflected the pursuit of Asian American spa salon in Atlanta. ‘