Families of shooting victims speak of their anguish

The shocked and grieving families of the Indian-Americans working at a FedEx facility in the US state of Indiana have expressed their anger, fear and anxiety as they came to terms with the loss of their loved ones.

Late Friday night, the Marion County Coroner’s Office and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) released the names of the eight victims.

‘Enough is enough’

‘Enough is enough’ our community has been through enough trauma,’ Komal Chohan, granddaughter of one of the deceasedAmarjeet Johalwas quoted as saying by the New York Post.

“I am heart-broken to confirm that my naniji

[maternal grandmother], Amarjeet Kaur Johal, is among those killed in the senseless shooting at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis,” Chohan said.

She said that several of her family members work at the particular facility and are traumatised.

Jaswinder Singh, who lost his life in the shooting, was due to get his first paycheck at the facility this month and was working on the night shift to sort out the mail. ‘He was a simple man. He used to pray and meditate a lot, and he did community service,” said Harjap Singh Dhillon, a relative of Singh, in a New York Times report.

Amarjit Sekhon, another deceased in the incident who began working at FedEx about six months ago, leaves behind two teenage sons who are yet to come to terms with their mother’s death. Rimpi Girn, Sekhon’s niece, said she is struggling to explain her loss of her younger son.