- A 19-year-old gunman killed eight people, four of whom were Sikhs, at an Indianapolis-area FedEx facility in 2021.
- Anti-Sikh hate crimes have increased every year since the FBI began tracking them in 2015, climbing to 94 in 2020.
- Some are concerned about the tendency of Sikhs to just keep walking. One member of the community said, “You don’t learn to grieve because you’ve never been taught how.”
Komal was at the royal house on the night of April 15, 2021, when the news started pouring in During a shooting at the Indianapolis FedEx Ground Operations Facility where her mother started working a week ago.
“It was very shocking,” said Sahi, an immigration attorney in suburban Indianapolis. “There were a lot of Sikh workers in that godown. Listening to my mom, it felt like you make friends because you’re working with people like you. It was a community. Everyone knew someone who worked there.”
