7 dead, including gunman, in shooting at Wis. Sikh temple
By Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY
Updated 3m ago
Police and fire departments are handling a shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., south of Milwaukee, where at least seven people, including the gunman, are dead, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and other news organizations. At least three people, including a police officer who exchanged shots with the suspect, have been injured and taken to a hospital.
Update at 4:41 p.m. ET:
The White House has issued a statement regarding the shooting at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis.:
"Michelle and I were deeply saddened to learn of the shooting that tragically took so many lives in Wisconsin," read the statement issued by President Obama. "At this difficult time, the people of Oak Creek must know that the American people have them in our thoughts and prayers, and our hearts go out to the families and friends of those who were killed and wounded. My Administration will provide whatever support is necessary to the officials who are responding to this tragic shooting and moving forward with an investigation. As we mourn this loss which took place at a house of worship, we are reminded how much our country has been enriched by Sikhs, who are a part of our broader American family."
Update at 4:14 p.m. ET:
Police have finished sweeps inside the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis., to insure there was not a second shooter and they are now making sweeps of cars outside, CNN is reporting. One of the reasons they are studying the vehicles is to see if they can find the vehicle the shooter used to reach the scene, if that is how he traveled, according to CNN.
President Obama, who initially received word on the incident from John Brennan, homeland security adviser, is continuing to receive updates, according to the White House press office.
Authorities plan to hold another update for reporters at 4:30 p.m. ET, CNN has reported.
Update at 3:30 p.m. ET:
The shooter was a white male in his 30s, Ven Boba Ri, one of the temple's committee members, tells the Journal-Sentinel.
"It's pretty much a hate crime," he tells the news organization. "It's not an insider."
The incident unfolded, Ri told the Journal-Sentinel, after the shooter walked up to a priest who was standing outside and shot him. The shooter then went inside and began firing at others, according to Ri.
Police so far have not indicated any known motive.
Update at 3:18 p.m. ET:
The Indian Embassy reports that it is monitoring the situation and that it is in touch with the National Security Council over the incident, CNN is reporting. President Obama, who the White House reports touched down in Washington via the Marine One helicopter about 40 minutes ago, has been informed of the situation, CNN also reports.
About an hour ago, a Facebook page encouraging members of the public to pray for the victims of the Sikh temple shooting was launched.
Update at 2:45 p.m. ET:
Seven people have died in the shooting incident Sunday at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt tells reporters. One of those was the shooter, he said.
Wentlandt said that in light of the chaos of the incident, he is acting as public information officer for the Oak Creek Police Department. He called the scene "an ongoing and very fluid situation."
Four of the deceased are inside the temple and three deceased are outside, including the shooter, he said.
About 10:25 a.m. CT, Oak Creek police received multiple calls about the shooting. A 20-year law enforcement veteran arrived at the scene and exchanged multiple rounds with the officer, Wentlandt said. The officer was shot multiple times and is in surgery. His condition is not known. The shooter is "down at the scene and is presumed deceased," Wentlandt said.
Although early reports from witnesses suggested there may have been more than one shooter, Wentlandt said officers had not identified any other gunmen.
Update at 2:28 p.m. ET:
The four shot include a police officer, who is expected to survive, and the shooter, police have told TMJ4 in Milwaukee.
Members of the police SWAT team have begun removing the injured from the temple's prayer room, the Journal-Sentinel reports. Among those shot was Satwant Kaleka, president of the temple, Greenfield (Wis.) Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt told the news organization.
Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee issued a release at 12:40 p.m. local time indicating that the facility was treating three patients with gunshot wounds. All are male and all are critical, according to the Froedtert statement. One was in surgery, according to the hospital.
By Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
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Only Islamaphobes are this dumb..
Milo Boz 11 seconds ago
Stop spreading false information about Sikhism.
G716M in reply to bapina2k(Show the comment) 8 months ago
and Waht are you gonna do besides saying bad things about other ppl or swearing at me???
G716M in reply to bapina2k(Show the comment) 8 months ago
you should do the Shanti Mantra and ALLAH HU AKBAR! I am a non-Muslim saying this. Allah Hu AKBAR! There is no god but ALLAH!!! WAHEGURU WAHEGURU WAHEGURU WAHEGURU! THUHIN THUHIN THUHIN RAM JI.
G716M in reply to bapina2k(Show the comment) 8 months ago
Allah will surely do Justice for He is all Merciful and the Protector.
G716M 8 months ago
How can you trace this to US? In 84, it was Congress Vs. Sikhs.Shrewd congress made it Hindu Vs Sikhs. I disagree with you.Sikhs are Brahmins. Their purpose is to stop conversion.Italian or Indian or Pakistani Sikh, they just killed because of their turban and beard. Govt.s through out the world should be informed and educated that Sikhs are against Islam.I agree with you on india Govt.'s stand. Sikhs are Kashmiri Pandits. Now, street beggars in Delhi. Concentrate on SindhuDesh
bapina2k in reply to sanjosestateboy(Show the comment) 1 year ago
ya ia gree with u cuz fuckin goverment of india and brahmin dont like sikhs at all they start killing sikhs in punjab now like they did back in the late 80 y is that who is behind all this? and another thign the italian guy just got fired fi u not aware of that
sanjosestateboy in reply to bapina2k(Show the comment) 1 year ago
What made these Brahmins wear turban? Why anybody/US should understand? Sikhs are not doing their jobs properly. These Brahmins should be devoid of turbans. Why should you expect the west to understand you when your Turban-clad pimp is being governed by an Italian?
bapina2k in reply to sanjosestateboy(Show the comment) 1 year ago
Can you distinguish between your muslim friend and a Let millitant? You have no idea. The arabs import everything except Oil. & Allah is just a scape-goat. Its a false rumour. Say allah-hoo-fuckbur 5 times and you are more religious than anything. Why no Mullah/Massiah is condemning all these incidents? They know very well that the more they play, more dominant they become. Islam is a nasty movement by arabs not any religion.
bapina2k in reply to sanjosestateboy(Show the comment) 1 year ago
people dont know the diff between sikha nd afgani grow up people or go to google and learn about other religion
An eyewitness to the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin says that a team of four men dressed in black carried out the massacre, contradicting the official narrative that a lone gunman was the culprit.
Just like the ‘Batman’ massacre, after which eyewitnesses clearly stated that James Holmes had an accomplice, today’s tragedy in Oak Creek is already throwing up questions that may suggest a wider plot.
Speaking with the Associated Press, an eyewitness stated, “Between ten and ten-thirty, four white males who were dressed darkly, dressed in all black clothing, came in and opened fire on our congregation.”
With the federal government already labeling the shootings a “domestic terror incident,” the narrative is already being manufactured to blame the tragedy on conservatives and libertarians, as well as demonizing the second amendment.
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My reaction to the attempted assassination of Arm Kaleka's father in a professional Illuminati revenge-hit in a Wisconsin Sihk temple. Arm Kaleka's dad barely survived but we didn't know at the time I made this. The cabal shooters (a witness says 4) apparently couldn't get the job done because he was only wounded attempting to tackle one of them.
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OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (Reuters) - The gunman who killed six people at a Wisconsin Sikh temple was a 40-year-old U.S. Army veteran and authorities said they were investigating possible links to white supremacist groups and his membership in a skinhead rock band.
The assailant, who was shot dead by police at the scene on Sunday, was named Wade Michael Page, a former U.S. soldier who served from 1992 to 1998, according to John Edwards, the police chief of Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee and home to the 400-member temple.
Page killed six people and seriously wounded three, including a police officer, at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin as worshippers prepared for religious services.
The victims were five men and one woman, aged between 39 and 84. Members of the Sikh community said the president of the congregation and a priest were among the victims.
Authorities said they were treating the attack as a possible act of domestic terrorism. American Sikhs said they have often been singled out for harassment, and occasionally violent assault, since the September 11, 2001, attacks because they are mistaken as Muslims due to their colorful turbans and beards.
"The definition of domestic terrorism is the use of force or violence for social or political gain, so that's obviously what we're looking at," FBI special agent Teresa Carlson said at a news conference on Monday, adding that authorities were looking at Page's ties to white supremacists.
U.S. military sources said Page had been discharged from the Army in 1998 for "patterns of misconduct" and had been cited for being drunk on duty.
Page had served in the military for six years but was never posted overseas. He was a psychological operations specialist and missile repairman who was last stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the sources said.
In June 1998 he was disciplined for being drunk on duty and had his rank reduced to specialist from sergeant. He was not eligible to re-enlist.
Page had been a member of the skinhead band End Apathy, based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 2010, said Heidi Beirich, director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, Alabama.
He also tried to buy goods from the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, in 2000, she said. The SPLC describes the National Alliance on its website as "perhaps the most dangerous and best organized neo-Nazi formation in America."
WANTED TO 'MOVE FORWARD'
In a 2010 online interview with End Apathy's record label Label56, Page said he had founded the band in 2005 because "I realized ... that if we could figure out how to end people's apathetic ways, it would be the start towards moving forward."
Asked in the interview what kind of topics he wrote about in his lyrics, Page said: "The topics vary from sociological issues, religion, and how the value of human life has been degraded by being submissive to tyranny and hypocrisy that we are subjugated to."
Describing how the events unfolded, Chief Edwards told reporters the first officer on the scene found a victim in the temple parking lot and went to render assistance. The officer was then shot eight or nine times at very close range with a handgun, Edwards said.
The gunman then fired on a police car, ignoring officers' commands to drop his weapon, and was shot and killed by police.
The wounded officer, identified as Brian Murphy, 51, was being treated in a hospital, Edwards said.
After the shooting, police searched an apartment at a duplex in the Cudahy neighborhood near Milwaukee, presumed to be the residence of the gunman. Generators and floodlights were set up along the street and a bomb squad was on the scene.
Edwards said they were confident Page was a "lone gunman," but police were looking for a "person of interest" -- an individual who showed up on the scene after the shooting and left before police could ascertain what he was doing there.
Bernard Zapor, special agent in charge for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the weapon used in the shooting was a 9mm handgun that had been legally purchased. Page emptied several magazines and several more unused magazines were found on the scene.
Wisconsin has some of the most permissive gun laws in the country. It passed a law in 2011 allowing citizens to carry a concealed weapon.
A search of a nationwide public data base showed that Page had lived at some 20 addresses in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Colorado, California and Texas.
Jagjit Singh Kaleka, the brother of the president of the temple who was among the six Sikhs killed, said he had no idea what the motive was for the attack.
The shooting came just over two weeks after a gunman killed 12 people at a theater in Aurora, Colorado, where they were watching a screening of new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises."
The September 11 attacks were carried out by Muslims linked to the al Qaeda militant group led by Osama bin Laden. Sikhs are not Muslim, but many Americans do not know the difference, members of the Sikh community said.
There are 500,000 or more Sikhs in the United States but the community in Wisconsin is small, about 2,500 to 3,000 families, said local Sikhs. The temple in Oak Creek was founded in October 1997.
The Sikh faith is the fifth-largest in the world, with more than 30 million followers. It includes belief in one God and that the goal of life is to lead an exemplary existence.
(Additional reporting by James Kelleher, and Ian Simpson, David Ingram and Missy Ryan and Phillip Stewart in Washington and David Bailey in Minneapolis; writing by Ian Simpson and Claudia Parsons; Editing by Mohammad Zargham and Cynthia Osterman)
There were 4 gunment reported by more than one witnesse. One shot was the father of an individual, with Dr. Stephen Greer, producing a disclosure film, Sirius, revealing the alien agenda and Illuminati secrets. How come all the shooters in these incidences are ex military pcyh op people incluing Oklahoma, Unibomber, Holmes, and this one, too? Scopolamine??? This is clearly a propaganda psy op to disarm us for the takeover and population extermination camps?
Crazy demons are always up to something violent and no good !
August 6, 2012, 4:31 p.m.
WASHINGTON -- Federal investigators had “looked at” Sikh temple gunman Wade Michael Page more than once because of his associations with right-wing extremists and the possibility that he was providing funding to a domestic terrorist group, but law enforcement officials at the time determined there was not enough evidence of a crime to open an investigation, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, would not say Monday which law enforcement agency had considered investigating Page, or when.
Before his rampage Sunday at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., that left him and six others dead and three critically wounded, Page was known to civil rights groups as a member of two racist skinhead bands – End Apathy and Definite Hate. He was also believed to have been a low-level member of a national white supremacist group called the Hammerskins.
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Racist skinhead bands and record labels have been known by law enforcement to raise money for extremist groups in the U.S.
Both the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center had tracked Page for several years. The nonprofit organizations collect publicly available information on hate groups from Web forums, pamphlets and other sources.
But the FBI is prohibited under federal law from collecting information on U.S. citizens not suspected of committing a crime. In order to open a domestic terrorism investigation, FBI agents must believe a suspect has threatened violence, has broken federal law and is trying to advance a political or social agenda.
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This sets the bar high for opening a domestic terrorism case before someone has made a specific threat of violence or committed a crime.
The mayor of Oak Creek told CNN on Sunday that he was unaware of any signs that Page had been casing the temple in advance of the shooting.
“This happens a lot where somebody will come to your attention and you do a preliminary investigation of the guy’s activities and nothing pans out,” said Bob Blitzer, a retired FBI agent who was the domestic counterterrorism chief for the FBI from 1996 to 1998. Blitzer led the investigation into Timothy J. McVeigh after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people, including 19 children.
“Some private groups collect a lot of information, but they can," Blitzer said. "Law enforcement can’t.”
Note; southern poverty law centre is a well-know NWO front.
Go to roughly 1/2 way, 1;00 sih and on, in re Aurora and special ops massacre attacks. 18;00 re Sikh temple