The shooter who killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indiana committed suicide when police closed, officials said Friday.
Investigators are still working to try to identify the man who opened fire on the plant, just outside of Indianapolis, around 11 p.m. Thursday.
“We are not able to make a positive identification of the suspect,” Craig McCartt, deputy director of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, told a news conference.
Police officials said the gunman was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene and used some sort of rifle to carry out the killings.
“When the agents entered, the situation was over. The suspect ended his life shortly before officers entered the facility, “McCartt said, adding that the shootings only lasted” a couple of minutes. “
The deputy director could not say if the shooter was a FedEx employee.
Eight people were killed in the shooting which also left five more injured. The injured are expected to survive.
“He just started shooting at random, and that started in the parking lot, and he went into the facility for a short period of time before he took his own life,” McCartt said of the killer.
The deputy director said the investigation is still in its infancy.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said the shot pushed the city into the spotlight “in ways we would never have expected.
“Last night, Indianapolis was revisited by the scourge of gun violence that has killed too many people in our community and in our country,” Hogsett said in the briefing. “No information will restore the life that was taken or the peace that was destroyed.”