The building is located near Indianapolis International Airport.
Police said there are “multiple victims at this time”, though it is unclear exactly how many people were shot or the extent of their injuries.
The scene has been declared a “mass causality, Level 1”, according to local news reports. This reportedly allows more emergency responders to be dispatched to the scene.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police said the suspect took his own life after officers arrived.
“We don’t feel there is an active threat to the community at this time,” Public Information Officer Genae Cook told reporters.
“We have multiple people with injuries consistent with gunshot wounds. We have others that have been transported to various hospitals throughout the area.”
Employees inside the FedEx revealed they saw the gunman just metres away from where they were hiding.
“This made me stand up and actually look out 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,” Jeremiah Miller told WISH.
“I immediately ducked down and got scared and my friend’s mother, she came in and told us to get inside the car.”
Another eyewitness said he didn’t see anyone get shot but claimed he saw a “dead body” in the parking lot.
“(The shooting) started off in the parking lot then it went into the building and back into the parking lot,” he said.
“People were driving away but then he started shooting at the cars driving away.”
Paraminder Singh, a family member of one of the victims, told a FOX59 journalisthis niece was in her car when the gunman started shooting at her vehicle.
The woman was shot in the arm and was transported to hospital.
Mr Singh said she called him and told him there had been shots fired in the FedEx building.
“She called as I was asleep at home. She said there was a shooting in the FedEx. So we just drove from Brownsburg,” he said.
Another man, Ian Johnston, told the news outlet that his wife, who works at the facility, had texted to tell him there was an active shooter inside.
“I communicated with her for a while and then it went silent for a while. So I came here just to see what was going on and when I got here she texted me and said ‘I’m OK’,” he said.
FedEx released a statement following the shooting, confirming the company was cooperating with authorities.
“We are aware of the tragic shooting at our FedEx Ground facility near the Indianapolis airport,” the statement read.
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Live Updates: At least 8 dead in shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis
Indianapolis police say eight people were killed and multiple others wounded at a FedEx facility on the city's southwest side late Thursday. They say it appears the suspected gunman killed himself.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department says officers came upon an active shooter incident when they arrived.
They found the bodies of eight people. Several other victims were raced to hospitals, at least one in critical condition. Some others got to hospitals on their own.
IMPD spokesperson Genae Cook told reporters early Friday it appears the shooter took his own life, adding, "We don't feel that there is an active threat to the community at this time."
She called the shooting "very heartbreaking" and "a tragedy."
Police asked anyone with family members who work at the facility who haven't been able to contact them to go to a nearby Holiday Inn.
The facility is near the Indianapolis International airport.
A man whose wife works in the facility told WTTV she texted him to say there was an active shooter there.
"She texted me to tell me there's an active shooter and we communicated back and forth for a while. She's since notified me she's OK," said Ian Johnson.
"After I communicated with her for a while, then it went silent for a while, so I came here just to see what was going on and she texted me I'm OK."
Johnson said you never think something like this might happen, but it always can.
The uncle of one victim says she was shot in the upper left arm as she sat in her car in a parking lot at the FedEx facility.
"She's fine. She's in the hospital now," Parminder Singh told WTTV.
"She called as I was asleep at home. She said there was a shooting in the FedEx. So we just drove from Brownsburg," he said.
He said his niece did not know the gunman.
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