It lasted only a couple of minutes and was over by the time police responded to the scene, Craig McCartt, the Indianapolis police department’s deputy chief, told a news briefing on Friday.
A shotgun was seized from his residence then, and based on “items observed in the suspect’s bedroom at that time,” he was interviewed by the FBI in April 2020, FBI Indianapolis Special Agent in Charge Paul Keenan said in a statement. None of the victims in Indianapolis have been formally identified. But Sikhs, whose religion originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, accounted for four of those killed and at least one wounded, according to Gurinder Singh Khalsa, a businessman and leader of the local Sikh community.
“Too many Americans are dying every single day from gun violence,” he said. “It stains our character and pierces the very soul of our nation.”