red flag law

The city of Indianapolis effectively denied a request for over $2 million in compensation made by three members of the Sikh community affected by a mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility last April.

Victims of the Indianapolis FedEx shooting earlier this year may seek damages from the City.

Law enforcement says there is no evidence a gunman was motived by racial or ethnic bias, or sought to advance an ideology when he shot and killed eight people at the FedEx Ground facility near Indianapolis on April 15.

Judge Amy Jones, who oversees the filings of red flag cases in Marion County, issued new guidance this week.

Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears is facing mounting criticism for declining to pursue court hearings that could have prevented a man from accessing the guns used to shoot and kill eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.

Indiana's Red Flag law could have stopped 19 year-old Brandon Hole from legally buying the guns he used to kill eight people at a FedEx facility last week, but the Marion County Prosecutor said the law has significant limitations.

A trace of the two guns found by investigators at the scene revealed that suspect legally bought the rifles in July and September of last year

Indiana's Red Flag Law was passed in 2005 and is one of the oldest in the country. But it isn't used a lot.

The study focused on Indiana and Connecticut's firearm seizure laws. While Connecticut's suicide rate has been offset by different factors over 10 years, Indiana's has gradually decreased since the enactment of the seizure law.

Following the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida an Indiana law, known as the "red flag law," has earned national attention as a possible solution.