The families of five FedEx employees killed in last year’s mass shooting at the FedEx ground facility in Indianapolis are suing both FedEx and Securitas. The lawsuit against FedEx Corporation, FedEx Ground Service System, Inc., Federal Express Corporation, FedEx Corporate Services, Inc., and Securitas Security Services, USA, states the shooting was preventable.

“It’s painful. It sucks that we have to go throiugh this when this incident was 100 percent preventable,” said Guri Johal, whose mother Amerjeet Johal, 66, was one of the eight people who were shot and killed by Brandon Hole, a former employee, nearly one year ago.

The lawsuit and the attorneys representing the family members, claim that FedEx understood “there could be crimes committed at their premises”, yet did nothing to prevent such crime.

The lawsuit also says Securitas, one of the world’s largest private security providers, did not provide sufficient service and guards were not armed.

“FedEx expects and understood that there could be crime at their premises,” said attorney Dan Chamberlain. “They issued name badges, which this person was no longer an employee at FedEx and they had the name badge and the name badge specifically says there could be crimes on the property.”

Chamberlain was joined by Atlanta attorney Mel Hewitt, who has prior experience with a shooting at a FedEx facility, in 2014 in Kennesaw, Georgia. A state appeals court ruled last year that FedEx was not liable in that case because the corporation could not have seen that rampage coming.

However, in the case of the Indianapolis shooting, the lawyers argue that the shooting was entirely preventable.

“From our perspective I don’t think there’s any question that FedEx is just 100 percent responsible for all of this preventable loss,” said Chamberlain.

Carly Alexander’s father agreed.

“There are at least eight different lights that have gone out in this world needlessly and that could have been prevented. So, we want to make sure that doesn’t happen to anybody else,” said Matt Alexander.

Johal echoed those statements with his own.

“As far as the loss, it’s still the same, still hurts the same. I just can’t move forward. Life just keeps going down,” he said.

The families are seeking an unspecified amount in damages. Both attorney said they diud not intend to file suit against the City of Indianapolis, Marion County or any government entity, but did say they were open to more plaintiffs joining the suit announced Monday.