NEW: Police say the 19-year-old Indianapolis gunman who fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility - including four members of the Sikh community - browsed White supremacist websites a little over a year before the attack: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/20/us/indianapolis-shooting-fedex-tuesday/index.html #inlegis
In 2020, as IMPD detained the teen, seized his shotgun, and put him on a mental health hold, he said, "...turn the power strip off on my computer. I don't want anyone to see what's on it." An officer then checked the computer and found visits to white supremacist websites.
The Marion County Prosecutor says he didn’t utilize the Indiana’s Red Flag law because he didn’t have access "to anything to indicate [the gunman] had had a history or documented diagnosis of mental illness."

Months later, the gunman bought the guns he used in the mass shooting.
Under Indiana’s Red Flag law, law enforcement could have filed paperwork with a court that could have led to the issuance of an extreme risk order to prohibit the gunman from buying or having guns after seizing the suspect’s gun in 2020. That didn't happen...
An Everytown analysis of mass shootings revealed that in 54% of incidents - like this one - the shooter exhibited warning signs that they posed a risk *before* the shooting. And we’ve seen time and again the connections between white supremacists and violence.
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