Law enforcement officials have identified the shooter in the Indianapolis mass murder that took the lives of nine people as 19-year-old Indiana resident Brandon Scott Hole, reportedly a former FedEx employee, the Associated Press reports.
Indianapolis Deputy Police Chief Craig McCartt said Hole approached the FedEx distribution center and started firing at people gathered outside the building. The weapon was described by police as a .223 caliber rifle, but they did not specify if it was a semi-automatic or bolt-action weapon. One person who survived the attack said the shooter had “a submachine gun of some sort, an automatic rifle.”
Police were searching an address associated with Hole, seizing his computers and other electronics to determine a motive for the attack.