Eight shot dead in another US firearm atrocity

A GUNMAN killed eight people and wounded several others before apparently killing himself in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings after a relative lull during the pandemic.

Five people were taken to hospital after the Thursday night shooting, according to police.

One of them had critical injuries, police spokesperson Genae Cook said.

Another two people were treated and released at the scene.

FedEx said people who worked for the company were among the dead.

A witness said that he was working inside the building when he heard several gunshots in rapid succession.

“I see a man come out with a rifle in his hand and he starts firing and starts yelling stuff that I could not understand,” Levi Miller said on TV.

“What I ended up doing was ducking down to make sure he did not see me because I thought he would see me and he would shoot me.”

Police have not identified the gunman or said whether he was an employee at the facility.

They said “preliminary information from evidence at the scene” indicated that he died by suicide.

Craig McCartt, of the Indianapolis police, told NBC Today yesterday that officers still knew “very little”.

It was the latest in a recent string of mass shootings across the US.

Last month, eight people were fatally shot at massage businesses across the Atlanta area and 10 died in gunfire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.