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VOL. CLXX . ...No. 59,031 © 2021 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2021 $3.00 IN INDIANAPOLIS, 3RD MASSACRE IN 3 MONTHS Biden Wavers 8 Are Killed at FedEx Warehouse — On Restricting Gunman Once Worked There

Refugee Entry This article is by Sarah Bahr, Mitch we are left with this morning is Smith and Campbell Robertson. grief,” he said, “grief for the fam- INDIANAPOLIS — He ap- ilies of those killed, grief for the Backlash Over Retreat peared in the parking lot after employees who have lost their co- dark — a hooded figure with a gun workers and grief for the many From a Big Increase who immediately began spraying Americans struggling to under- bullets in every direction. stand how tragedies like this con- He stepped into the FedEx tinue to occur, again and again.” By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS warehouse, a place where he had The gunman was identified by and MIRIAM JORDAN once worked, and continued law enforcement officials on Fri- WASHINGTON — The White shooting, “firing into the open,” day as Brandon Scott Hole, a 19- House announced on Friday that according to one witness. year-old who used to work at the President Biden would limit the He shouted unintelligibly as he warehouse, and who was already number of refugees allowed into fired off round after round, and on law enforcement radar. the United States this year to the then, before the police could even The victims were identified by historically low level set by the arrive, he had killed himself, leav- the police as Matthew R. Alexan- Trump administration, reversing ing in his wake eight dead and at der, 32; Samaria Blackwell, 19; an earlier promise to welcome least seven wounded. Amarjeet Johal, 66; Jaswinder more than 60,000 people fleeing On Thursday night, in a terrify- Kaur, 64; Jaswinder Singh, 68; war and persecution. ingly quick spasm of violence, In- Amarjit Sekhon, 48; Karli Smith, But the move to cap the number dianapolis faced its third mass 19; and John Weisert, 74. Some at 15,000 prompted such an imme- shooting since the start of the family members of victims who are Sikh provided different diate backlash from Democrats A J MAST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES year. And a nation already weary spellings and ages: Jasvinder and human rights activists that A gunman opened fire on FedEx employees in Indianapolis during a shift change on Thursday. from a pandemic grappled with the White House later retreated yet another bloody rampage, only Kaur, 50; Amarjit Sekhon, 49; and and promised to announce a final, weeks after back-to-back mass Jaswinder Kaur Singh, 70. increased number by May 15. shootings last month at spas in the Chief Randal Taylor of the Indi- The White House press secre- A Partial List of Mass Shootings in 2021 Atlanta area and at a grocery anapolis Metropolitan Police De- tary, Jen Psaki, did not specify partment said he had been told Shootings never stopped during the pandemic. They just weren’t as public. The Gun Violence store in Boulder, Colo. how many refugees would be al- “It is a national embarrass- that a large number of Sikh em- lowed into the country, but she did Archive, which defines a mass shooting as one with four or more people injured or killed, not ment, what’s going on,” President ployees worked at the FedEx say that Mr. Biden’s initial goal of including the perpetrator, has counted 11 mass murders in 2021. This list offers a glimpse of the Biden said in a news conference warehouse, and the Sikh Coali- welcoming 62,500 seemed “un- gun violence the country has already suffered this year. DANIEL VICTOR and DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR on Friday, as he repeated his sup- tion, a national nonprofit group, likely.” port for a ban on assault weapons. said on Twitter that at least four of The wavering showed the Bi- “And it’s not only these mass those killed were members of the den administration’s struggle to Indianapolis At least eight people were killed after a gunman opened fire in a FedEx shootings that are occurring. Ev- city’s Sikh community. find its footing as it tries to reverse ery single day, every single day, Officials described Thursday APRIL 15 • EIGHT DEAD warehouse. Relatives said that workers were unable to use their cellphones President Donald J. Trump’s on the job, leaving them unable to confirm their safety for hours. there’s a mass shooting in the night’s rampage as unfolding in harsh immigration policies amid a United States if you count all those “just a couple of minutes,” as Dep- record surge of children and teen- who are killed out on the streets of uty Chief Craig McCartt said to re- agers crossing the southwestern A former N.F.L. player shot and killed a doctor, the doctor’s wife and our cities and our rural areas. It’s porters. border. Rock Hill, S.C. their two grandchildren inside their house, as well as two air-conditioning a national embarrassment and Around 11 p.m., the gunman ar- “This Biden administration ref- APRIL 7 • SIX DEAD rived at the facility, a huge ware- technicians. The gunman later killed himself, the authorities said. must come to an end.” ugee admissions target is unac- The mayor of Indianapolis, Joe house lined with truck docks sit- ceptable,” said Senator Richard J. Hogsett, told reporters of the ting a few miles outside of the In- Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and dianapolis airport. There were at The authorities said two brothers killed four family members “scourge of gun violence that has the chairman of the Senate Judi- Allen, Texas least 100 people inside around that before killing themselves. The bodies were discovered after killed far too many” in his city and ciary Committee. “Facing the APRIL 3 • FOUR DEAD in the country as a whole. “What Continued on Page A16 greatest refugee crisis in our time, the police arrived at a home for a welfare check. there is no reason to limit the num- ber to 15,000. Say it ain’t so, Presi- dent Joe.” Orange, Calif. A gunman opened fire at a real estate office, killing four people, VARTAN GREGORIAN Unauthorized migrants cross- including a 9-year-old boy. The shooting was most likely related to MARCH 31 • FOUR DEAD Why Workers 1934-2021 ing the border are processed dif- a “business and personal relationship,” the authorities said. ferently from refugees, who are vetted and approved for resettle- Chose Amazon ment before arriving. But Mr. Bi- Essex, Md. A gunman killed his parents, two people at a convenience den was concerned that lifting the MARCH 28 • FOUR DEAD store and then himself in a shooting spree, the police said. Over a Union Trump-era cap on refugees would overwhelm the already-strapped By KAREN WEISE Continued on Page A15 A gunman inside a grocery store killed 10 people, including Boulder, Colo. and NOAM SCHEIBER MARCH 22 • 10 DEAD the first police officer to arrive at the scene. The gunman was injured and taken into custody. When Graham Brooks received his ballot in early February, ask- Pleading Guilty, ing whether he wanted to form a Atlanta Eight people, including six women of Asian descent, were killed at union at the Amazon warehouse in Alabama where he works, he MARCH 16 • EIGHT DEAD three spas, at least two of which had been frequented by the gunman. RioteratCapitol The attack caused particular alarm among many Asian-Americans. did not hesitate. He marked the NO box, and mailed the ballot in. JOHN MARSHALL MANTEL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Will Aid Inquiry After almost six years of work- A shooting near the city’s east side left four people dead, including a ing as a reporter at nearby news- Indianapolis papers, Mr. Brooks, 29, makes MARCH 13 • FOUR DEAD 7-year-old child, and critically wounded a woman, the authorities said. The police said the shooting stemmed from a domestic problem. about $1.55 more an hour at Ama- Unlikely Savior By ALAN FEUER zon, and is optimistic he can move A member of the Oath Keepers up. Of a Landmark militia who was charged in con- “I personally didn’t see the need Five children and a man were killed and a woman was seriously injured nection with the riot at the Capitol Muskogee, Okla. for a union,” he said. “If I was be- pleaded guilty on Friday and FEB. 2 • SIX DEAD when they were shot at a home. A brother of one of the victims was ing treated differently, I may have For Book Lovers agreed to cooperate with the gov- arrested. The police said they believed that the victims were related. voted differently.” ernment — potentially against Mr. Brooks is one of almost other members of the far-right ex- 1,800 employees who handed Am- By ROBERT D. McFADDEN Five people, including a pregnant woman, were found dead inside a home tremist group. Indianapolis azon a runaway victory in the Vartan Gregorian, the ebullient after the authorities came in contact with a juvenile male, who was suffering The guilty plea by the Oath JAN. 24 • FIVE DEAD company’s hardest-fought battle Armenian immigrant who from gunshot wounds. A day after the shooting, he was arrested. Keeper, Jon Ryan Schaffer, 53, of to keep unions out of its ware- climbed to pinnacles of academic Indiana, was the first to be en- houses. The result — announced and philanthropic achievement tered publicly by any of the more last week, with 738 workers vot- but took a detour in the 1980s to At least five people, including a 15-year-old girl, were killed in a than 400 people who have been Evanston, Ill. ing to form a union — dealt a restore a fading New York Public shooting spree in the Chicago area, the police said. The gunman charged so far in the Jan. 6 attack. JAN. 9 • FIVE DEAD crushing blow to labor and Demo- Library to its place at the heart of shot a total of seven people before he was killed by the police. News of the plea emerged last crats when conditions appeared American intellectual life, died on week after sealed documents in ripe for them to make advances. Thursday in Manhattan. He was Mr. Schaffer’s case were briefly — For some workers at the ware- 87. and accidentally — made avail- house, like Mr. Brooks, the min- The death, at a hospital, was able on a federal court database. imum wage of $15 an hour is more confirmed by his son Dareh Gre- Mr. Schaffer’s cooperation with At Ukraine Border, Russia Bares Military Might than they made in previous jobs the government could prove in- and provided a powerful incentive gorian. No cause was given. strumental in helping prosecutors alarms in the North Atlantic to side with the company. Ama- Dr. Gregorian liked to tell the story of “the most painful experi- pursue a separate and much By ANDREW E. KRAMER Treaty Organization, European zon’s health insurance, which broader conspiracy case against Display Poses an Early capitals and Washington, and is kicks in on the first day of employ- ence of my entire life.” It hap- 12 other members of the Oath MASLOVKA, Russia — Deep in Challenge for Biden increasingly seen as a test for the ment, also encouraged loyalty, pened in 1980, when he was Keepers who stand accused of a pine forest in southern Russia, Biden administration, which just workers said. provost of the University of Penn- some of the most serious charges military trucks, their silhouettes hit Moscow with a new round of Carla Johnson, 44, said she had sylvania, its top academic official. in the sprawling investigation into blurred by camouflage netting, sanctions. Russia responded al- learned she had brain cancer just Powerful trustees told him that he the storming of the Capitol. appear through the trees. Soldiers buildup along the border with most immediately, announcing on a few months after starting work was a shoo-in to replace the outgo- Though he was not charged as in four-wheel-drive vehicles creep Ukraine since the outset of Kyiv’s Friday that it would expel 10 U.S. last year at the warehouse, which ing president. He was so sure of part of that case, Mr. Schaffer’s along rutted dirt roads. And out- war with Russian-backed separat- diplomats. is in Bessemer, Ala. Amazon’s the post that he withdrew his agreement to assist the govern- side a newly pitched tent camp, ists seven years ago. The American sanctions were health care covered her treat- name from consideration as chan- ment was apparently significant sentries, Kalashnikovs slung over It is far from a clandestine oper- intended to punish Russia for nu- ment. cellor of the University of Califor- enough that prosecutors said at a their shoulders, pace back and ation: During a trip to southern merous past actions, including its “I was able to come in Day 1 nia at Berkeley. court hearing on Friday that they forth. Russia by a New York Times jour- meddling in United States elec- with benefits, and that could have He heard the bad news on his would sponsor him for the witness Over the past month or so, Rus- nalist, evidence of the buildup was tions, the “Solar Winds” hacking possibly made the difference in car radio. The Penn trustees had protection program. sia has deployed what analysts everywhere to be seen. of government agencies and cor- life or death,” Ms. Johnson said at chosen another academic star. 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