Updated April 16 at 8:43 p.m.

Indianapolis police and the FBI continued Friday to investigate why a 19-year-old man opened fire at a FedEx facility on the city’s southwest side, killing eight people and injuring several others.

Just after 8:00 p.m. IMPD and the Marion County Coroner’s office released the names of those killed. Police said those who died were 32-year-old Matthew R Alexander, 19-year-old Samaria Blackwell, 66-year-old Amarjeet Johal, 64-year-old Jaswinder Kaur, 68-year-old Jaswinder Singh, 48-year-old Amarjit Sekhon, 19-year-old Karli Smith, and 74-year-old John Weisert. In a news release, IMPD says Marion County’s Coroner’s Office will release cause of death once autopsies are completed.

IMPD says names of other victims will not be released.

Just after 4 p.m. Friday, IMPD identified the gunman as Brandon Scott Hole of Indiana. He was a former employee at the FedEx facility.

IMPD was called to 8951 Mirabel Road just after 11 p.m. Thursday on reports of shots fired. Indianapolis Deputy Police Chief Craig McCartt said the officers arrived to find a “chaotic and active” crime scene. Eye witnesses told police the suspect, later identified as Hole, came to the facility and quickly started randomly shooting as he exited his vehicle. There was no argument or confrontation beforehand, according to police.

It is believed the incident only lasted a few minutes and the shooting was over shortly before the officers entered the building.

“Our IMPD officers went towards danger, as they typically do,” IMPD Chief Randall Taylor said Friday. “And when they arrived on the scene they found what really no one should see.”

Eight victims were pronounced dead at the scene. Four were outside of the FedEx building and four were found inside. Investigators believe the suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Five people were transported to area hospitals with apparent gunshot wounds.

The FBI and local law enforcement searched Hole’s residence Friday looking for a motive. Authorities said he used a rifle, but details about the gun were not available.

The scale of the crime scene slowed the identification of the victims. The Marion Coroner’s office was not able to access the scene until investigators completed processing evidence and documentating the scene. Some families were still waiting for information about missing loved ones late Friday morning. By 1 p.m. the coroner’s office was able to begin its work to identify the victims and notify families.

Several people also expressed frustration that a FedEx policy barring employees from having cell phones with them as they work prevented them from finding out if their family members were OK.

Thursday night’s mass shooting was the third in Indianapolis so far this year. Five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot and killed in January, and a man was accused of killing three adults and a child before abducting his daughter during an argument last month.