Indianapolis FedEx Employees Say Mass Shooter Used Automatic Rifle

Two men who said they worked for the Indianapolis FedEx facility and experienced a mass shooting on Thursday night, recounted the scene they witnessed to reporters.

The shooting left a number of people killed and at least 60 injured. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said that the gunman had taken his own life.

In a Facebook Live broadcast by Indy First Alert, Jeremiah Miller and Timothy Boillat, who said they worked at the FedEx Ground facility on Maribel Road, reported hearing gunshots after Miller finished his shift.

"I'm with my friend here and by the time we sit down at the smoke lounge and we start eating, we hear two gunshots and we think it's a car—a muffler—and so we ignore it," Miller said. "We hear three shots after that, we start thinking it's an engine problem."

He continued: "Then we start hearing six to around 10 shots. This made me stand up and actually look at the entrance door and I saw a man with a submachine gun of some sort, an automatic rifle, and he was firing in the open."

Boillat said he did not see people get shot, but saw a "body on the floor behind a vehicle."

Later in the broadcast, Miller said the shooting "started off in the parking lot, and it went into the building and then it went back into the parking lot."

"People were driving away, but then he started shooting at the cars driving away," he said. "I ended up seeing multiple cars coming in and this one Black lady, she was crying and she was telling everyone to not go, to not go."

This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.

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