FBI Says It Interviewed FedEx Mass Shooter Last Year

[turbinetree]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (CASEY SMITH and RICK CALLAHAN)
April 16, 2021, 12:48 AM EDT Updated on April 16, 2021, 5:02 PM EDT

Indianapolis (AP) -- FBI agents last year interviewed the gunman who fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, the bureau said Friday, as investigators searched the home of the 19-year-old former FedEx employee.

Coroners began the slow process of identifying the victims as family members spent hours agonizing over word of their loved ones. The slayings Thursday night marked the latest in a string of recent mass shootings to rock the U.S.

The shooter was identified as Brandon Scott Hole of Indianapolis, Deputy Police Chief Craig McCartt told a news conference. Investigators searched a home in Indianapolis associated with Hole and seized evidence, including desktop computers and other electronic media, McCartt said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-16/reports-multiple-people-shot-at-indianapolis-fedex-facility?srnd=premium

[soothsayer]

1. Guess that didn't help, then?

[BootinUp]

2. Yeah, not an exact science. And

I think this will be looked at again for clues.

[soothsayer]

3. Yes, I have no idea how they'd be able to predict this outcome or when it might happen

Maybe this will help, as you say. It’s a bad situation.

I wonder whether his family knew he had guns.

[magicarpet]

6. Family repeatedly warned authorities that the shooter had violent tendencies..

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/us/indianapolis-fedex-shooting-suspect/index.html

[soothsayer]

7. What can you do to a free citizen though? Tricky situation.

Until he does something bad, what can anyone do?

There must be something but I don’t know enough to know what’s possible.

[LisaL]

8. That's the thing. They can't do nothing for "tendencies' until that somebody acts on it.

And at that point it's already too late.

[soothsayer]

9. Yep

[SheltieLover]

17. Involuntary commitment to psych ward, depending upon state

But psych wards only evaluate, rx meds & kick them out.

[elias7]

4. Right. Off the radar in a flash.

I think people need to earn the right to have a gun and maintain certain standards to keep that gun. Otherwise they have no right to have a gun in the first place. We can’t police them and their well regulated militia brethren their whole lives.

And note, not a criminal. If these nut jobs to kill people, not criminals, you have their career to think about.

At this point, anybody who defends non-regulated gun ownership is an utter narcissistic fool.

[elias7]

5. Right. Off the radar in a flash.

I think people need to earn the right to have a gun and maintain certain standards to keep that gun. Otherwise they have no right to have a gun in the first place. We can’t police them and their well regulated militia brethren their whole lives.

And note, not a criminal. If these nut jobs to kill people, not criminals, you have their career to think about.

At this point, anybody who defends non-regulated gun ownership is an utter narcissistic fool.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

10. As a gun owner I fully agree

In more than just few hours in a class and range.

[PJMcK]

11. How'd that interview work out? (n/t)

[Effete Snob]

14. The subject failed to do anything illegal during it

[sanatanadharma]

12. The second amendment should have no more place than slavery in America

The second amendment has no more place than slavery in a moral America. It is in the constitution because of slavery. Slavery was in the constitution. The constitution was changed.
Time to eliminate the 250 year-old oddity of the right to mass- murder-machine ownership by 21st century people, who have not yet reached the number of gun deaths wherein gun devotees are no longer able to justify a heinous idea put into the constitution at the demand of heinous plantation owners.

The gun in America and the slavish attachment to the 2nd amendment is a moral-ethical issue. Ultimate success will come by keeping the issue framed as morality, as was true of the abolitionist point of view.

All gun defender arguments need be responded to with one question, "What is that magic-number of deaths needed to make you change your mind?"

[Groundhawg]

13. There is no Right to murder anyone.

This must stop but statements like that don't help.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

15. "put into the constitution at the demand of heinous plantation owners"

That's not entirely true, esp. if you're insinuating it's there because slave owners wanted guns so they could shoot slaves if needed.

It's actually about militias, and a desire on the part of the Founders to avoid having a standing Federal army, for a variety of reasons. They also viewed citizen militias as more efficient due to proximity. Travel was NOT fast in those days. If the Portuguese fleet showed up off the coast of Pennsylvania to invade, you can mount a quicker defense with people already in Pennsylvania.


It's not about enshrining the right for every single person to own however many guns they want, of any kind ever invented from that day until the end of time.

I don't disagree with your overall premise however ... it IS time.

[bluestarone]

16. In my eyes the FBI's hands were tied under the QRUMP way to do things

I bet that, had lots to do with the way they could handle things. Just saying.

[SYFROYH]

18. Is there a "red flag" law in Indiana?