Matthew R. Alexander, Samaria Blackwell, Amarjeet Kaur Johal, Jasvinder Kaur, Amarjit Sekhon, Jaswinder Singh, Karli Smith and John Weisert died.
Eight people were killed and five injured after the shooter opened fire on the facility around 11 p.m. that Thursday. Matthew R. Alexander, 32, Samaria Blackwell, 19, and Jaswinder Singh, 68, also died in the attack. Lawyers and family members said Monday that FedEx should have known there was a potential threat because there have been a history of shootings at other FedEx Ground facilities, including one in Kennesaw, Georgia, in 2014 that resulted in six people being injured.
Mel Hewitt, one of the attorneys in Monday's lawsuit, represented a client who sued FedEx in response to the Kennesaw shooting. That lawsuit reached a settlement.Before the Indianapolis shooting, the lawsuit says, FedEx had hired a company called Threat Assessment Group to help it create a workplace violence prevention program.
The lawsuit doesn't describe any specific incidents leading up to the shooting, but it briefly claims the shooter"exhibited emotional and mental instability on multiple instances" during his window of employment at the FedEx facility from August to October 2020. IndyStar had previously reported that the shooter's employment ended at the facility after he stopped showing up to work.