Brandon Scott Hole
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Brandon Scott Hole (August 30, 2001 - April 15, 2021) was an American man who committed the 2021 Indianapolis FedEx shooting, in which he killed 8 people (with 4 of them being Sikhs) and wounded 7 others before he committed suicide. No motive has been discovered.
Origin edit
Nothing is known about his past, all that is known is that he originally worked at the FedEx facility from August to October 2020; he was fired for failing to return to work. After the shooting, authorities conducted a search of his home and seized evidence, including electronics. An investigation of archived content from Hole's deleted Facebook accounts did not reveal any potential motives. Hole's Facebook account did reveal, however, that he was a "brony", a fan of the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Less than an hour before the shooting, he posted to his Facebook account: "I hope that I can be with Applejack in the afterlife, my life has no meaning without her. If there's no afterlife and she isn't real then my life never mattered anyway."
In March 2020, Hole's mother contacted the local authorities and warned them about her son's intent to die by suicide by cop and his purchase of a shotgun the day before, prompting an investigation to be opened. Police responded to the home and took him to a hospital. While being placed in handcuffs, an anxious Hole instructed the officers to turn off his computer, since he did not want anyone to see what was on it. An officer went upstairs to seize the shotgun and observed what he identified as white supremacist websites on Hole's computer in the process. Hole was placed in an "immediate detention mental health temporary hold" by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. In April 2020, the FBI questioned Hole about the websites. The investigation was later closed due to insufficient evidence of any criminal violation or a racially motivated extremist ideology held by Hole, though the shotgun was not returned to him.
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Victims edit
- Samaria Blackwell, 19
- Karli Smith, 19
- Matthew Alexander, 32
- Amarjit Sekhon, 48
- Jasvinder Kaur, 64
- Amarjeet Johal, 66
- Jaswinder Singh, 68
- John Weisert, 74