Sikh community presses for gun reforms after FedEx shooting
Aasees Kaur, legal client and community services manager of the Sikh Coalition reads a statement on the groups response after the group met at the Sikh Satsang of Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Saturday, April 17, 2021 to formulate the groups response to the shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis that claimed the lives of four members of the Sikh community. A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Kathmandu, April 18. Members of the Sikh community in Indianapolis have called for stricter gun laws after the mass shooting at the FedEx facility, which killed eight people.
Four out of the eight killed were from the Sikh community. A service meet was held on Saturday, where over 200 people attended.
Aasees Kaur, who represented the Sikh Coalition, spoke out alongside the city’s mayor and other elected officials to demand action that would prevent such attacks from happening again.
The attack has come as another blow to the Asian American community, as six people of Asian descent were killed by a gunman in Atlanta a month before.
The police said that about 90% of the workers at the FedEx warehouse near the Indianapolis International Airport are members of the local Sikh community.
There are between 8,000 and 10,000 Sikh Americans in Indiana, according to the coalition. Members of the religion, which began in India in the 15th century, began settling in Indiana more than 50 years ago.
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