Shoppers evacuate from the Greenwood Park Mall following a mass shooting on July 17.
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The Greenwood Park Mall gunman did not have alcohol or prescription drugs in his system at the time he was fatally shot by an armed bystander, officials announced Friday.
In 15 seconds on July 17, police say the gunman, Jonathan Douglas Sapirman, 20, of Greenwood, shot three people and injured two others before he was fatally shot by Elisjsha Dicken, 22, of Seymour, who police are calling a good Samaritan. Victor Gomez, 30, and husband and wife Pedro Pineda, 56, and Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda, 37, all of Indianapolis, were killed in the shooting.
The gunman was shot eight times and died of multiple gunshot wounds. There were traces of caffeine and nicotine, but there was no evidence of drugs or alcohol in his system, according to the Johnson County Coroner’s Office.
The announcement from the coroner’s office was the second update on the shooting investigation in as many days.
On Thursday, Herb Stapleton, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis Field Office, told reporters despite the best efforts of FBI agents, they were unable to recover data from the laptop found in the gunman’s oven. Police say the gunman placed his laptop in the oven at his apartment with a can of butane before departing for the mall. The heat from the oven damaged the laptop to the point that forensic analysts are unable to recover anything, Stapleton said.
The FBI is still working to analyze the cell phone that police say Sapirman dropped in the toilet in the mall bathroom before opening fire in the food court that day. Stapleton didn’t have a timeline for the analysis but he was hopeful that data can be extracted.
The FBI and the Greenwood Police Department are also working on an analysis of the gunman’s social media and online presence to potentially uncover a motive for the shooting. This work is ongoing, Stapleton said.
