Gunman, six others dead at Wisconsin Sikh temple

[xl_target]

Thanks for that video, Winnie.

Illuminating, isn't it, guys?
If you're not white and have a beard and/or a turban, you're a "terrorist"..... and these are the smarter kids, the ones that made it into college. The bias comes from ignorance and the exposure to a very cursory high school education.

In India, by the time I had reached the 10th standard, I had three years of World Geography, Indian Geography, World History and Indian History. My daughters history book had a page on WW2 and half a page on the Vietnam War.

[boris]

A very tragic incident this is.


I was angry when most Indians were blaming the US Gun culture.Always reminds what an amazingly anti-gun society we have here.

[goodboy_mentor]

Since most Indians do not own guns, are not familiar with guns, thus they have biased opinion against guns and gun ownership.

Some conspiracy theories are floating around the net that these recent shooting incidents, pushing of arms trade treaty in U.N. are part of conspiracy to attack the 2nd Amendment and advance the social agenda to confiscate guns from the people.

Also another story is that Amardeep Singh Kaleka, the son of the congregation president Satwant Singh Kaleka, is the film maker that is working with Dr. Steven Greer to produce a documentary named Sirius, on free energy and extra terrestrial life. The government did not want this movie to come out this fall.

[Hammerhead]

Sikh temple gunman died by own hand: FBI

August 8, 2012 by Kristen
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The white supremacist gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the FBI said on Wednesday.

A police officer shot and wounded the gunman, Wade Page, 40, in the stomach outside the temple in Oak Creek on Sunday, said Teresa Carlson, an FBI special agent in charge.

“Subsequent to that wound, it appears that Page died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head,” she told a news conference.

Police had said Page had been shot to death by an officer responding to the attack at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee.

Carlson said she had seen a video of the police officer wounding Page with a squad rifle. “It’s an amazing shot, and thank goodness,” she said.

Federal authorities have said they are treating the attack as a possible act of domestic terrorism. Page, an Army veteran, was a musician who played in white power punk-metal bands. He was armed with a 9mm handgun during the attack.

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Conditions of two injured temple shooting victims upgraded

Froedtert Hospital on Thursday upgraded the conditions of two of the three men shot and injured Sunday at the Oak Creek Sikh temple by gunman Wade Michael Page.

According to hospital officials:

Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy, who was shot eight to nine times, has been upgraded to satisfactory condition from critical.

Murphy was walking and sitting up Tuesday, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards said Wednesday during a media briefing.

Santokh Singh, 50, has been upgraded from critical to serious condition.

He suffered a gunshot wound that penetrated his chest, diaphragm, stomach and liver. All of his injuries were repaired in two surgeries and he is recovering well.

Punjab Singh, 65, remains in critical condition.

He suffered a single gunshot wound to the face that caused facial fractures and damage to his right carotid and vertebral artery. There is evidence he also may have subsequently suffered a stroke and he requires mechanical support to breathe, officials said.

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Sikh temple gunman shot himself in head after being shot by officer

After he murdered six people and wounded four others at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, after he was put down by a precise rifle shot fired by a police officer from 75 feet away, gunman Wade Michael Page ended the carnage as he began it, with a single bullet, pointing his 9mm handgun at his head, squeezing the trigger and killing himself.

The new details of Sunday's shooting in Oak Creek were revealed Wednesday during a news conference and in clinical reports released by the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office.

"We may never know why he chose that facility at that point in time . . . That may have died with Page," said Steven Conley, assistant special agent in charge of national security for the FBI.

The 40-year-old Army veteran and white supremacist left a trail of bullets, blood and death that extended from the parking area outside the temple to a living-quarters bedroom and a prayer hall covered in white sheets.

Page ambushed his victims while they were arriving or preparing for a prayer service and communal meal.

Four people died inside the temple, including a woman whose family said she was in prayer.

Two brothers - one a priest, the other who worked odd jobs - died in the parking lot area.

It's unclear how many rounds Page fired from his weapon. At least 20 bullets hit his victims, based on information gleaned from the reports as well as accounts of those wounded.

Page's suicide wasn't disclosed until the news conference. Previously, it was believed he was killed by a police officer.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Teresa Carlson said evidence, including videotape from a police squad car, showed Page took his own life after the rifle shot took him down.

The officer shot Page in the stomach, "thereby neutralizing the threat," Carlson said.

"I've seen the video, it was an amazing shot. And thank goodness," she said.

The officer who shot Page has been identified by the police union as Sam Lenda, a veteran of the Oak Creek police force. The officer's shot to Wade's stomach potentially could have killed him if he hadn't shot himself in the head, authorities said.

Events unfold

A quiet Sunday morning was shattered by gunfire, the horror recorded in 911 calls that began at 10:25 a.m., escalating from a "fight in the temple," to "a shooting at the temple" to the most chilling report of all: "An officer down."

Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy, who stopped to tend a victim, was shot eight or nine times after being ambushed by Page. Murphy is recovering from his wounds at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa. He was walking and sitting up Tuesday, according to Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards.

Two other survivors of the shooting, Punjab Singh and Santokh Singh, also remain hospitalized at Froedtert. Police have said a third injured worshipper was treated and released.

Authorities said they believed Wade drove himself to the temple in a car. They declined to say if they found additional guns or ammunition in his vehicle. No one else has been identified as an accomplice.

"I want to reiterate again that after all of this work we still have identified no one else responsible for this shooting other than him," Carlson said. "We also have not clearly defined his motive at this point."

Authorities said they did not find a note explaining the gunman's motives. They have conducted more than 100 interviews nationwide, and 180 federal grand jury subpoenas have been issued in connection with the investigation, according to Carlson. The investigation is international, with 101 leads pending worldwide, she said.

The temple at 7512 S. Howell Ave. spans 16,000 square feet. Every inch is being scoured for crime scene evidence. From the parking lot alone, authorities have collected 139 items of evidence, Carlson said.

"We know the suspect went room to room," said Conley, the FBI special agent.

Page gunned down two brothers who had arrived for a service that was to begin around 11 a.m.

The brothers, Ranjit and Sita Singh, died in a grassy area just south of the driveway leading to the parking lot.

A 41-year-old priest, Sita Singh, had moved here from New York City about six months ago to serve the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin while another priest was gone. He was shot multiple times in the back, right arm and left low back and flank area.

His older brother, Ranjit Singh, 49, played the tablas, a type of drum, during prayer services at the temple. He worked odd jobs on weekdays, sending what money he could home to his wife and 16-year-old son in New Delhi, India, according to NDTV, a New Delhi-based media company.

Ranjit Singh was shot in the chest and abdomen.

The only woman who died in the temple rampage, Paramjit Kaur, 41, was shot in the right flank. She came to the temple every week to pray and to prepare food on Sundays for the shared meal after the service. Among the contents in her black purse were 12 Forever stamps.

Kaur's husband, Inderjit Singh, a gas station worker, said he was told she was praying when she was shot.

"I still don't believe that," Singh said Wednesday, overwhelmed by grief and incredulous that a gunman would shoot a woman in prayer.

Suveg Singh, 84, died facedown at the end of a hallway. He was shot four times, including once in the head. He was known to come to the temple early in the morning and stay through the evening, sometimes as late as 7 p.m. He played a role of encouraging and providing fellowship. He did not have a wallet and was identified from a photo of his body by the temple's vice president.

Satwant Singh Kaleka, the 65-year-old temple president from Greenfield, died in a bedroom of the living quarters attached to the temple. He had multiple gunshot wounds, including one to the left lower back.

After he was shot, family members said, the temple president handed his cellphone to a priest, who hid in a bathroom and used the phone to call family outside the temple. At least 16 others trapped inside the building hid in a kitchen pantry.

Kaleka died defending the temple he built, attempting to fend off the gunman, family members said. Kaleka came to the United States with $100 in his pocket and worked to build a vibrant Sikh community. He died with $860.56 in his wallet, and 35 keys.

With the temple president in the living-quarters bedroom was Prakash Singh, 39, a priest at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin who had been in the United States for nine years. Just two months ago, he brought his wife, 11-year-old son and 12-year-old to the U.S.

The young temple priest died of a gunshot wound to the head, above his left eye.

After the shooting

The medical examiner reports speak of the difficulties of identification and communication, punctuated by language barriers, calls overseas to family members of the deceased in India as well as the need to conduct autopsies.

In the hours after the shooting, family members waited, many of them believing their loved ones were still alive. In fact, their loved ones were part of the crime scene, untouched and unidentified for about nine hours.

Investigators went from body to body confirming the deaths, documenting the location and position of each victim, gunshot wounds and any bullet casings found nearby. An FBI investigator collected wallets and a purse for identification.

While the medical examiner's office was in contact with authorities at the scene throughout the day, investigators weren't dispatched to process the scene until 4:35 p.m., more than six hours after the shooting occurred. They arrived at 6:53 p.m.

Family members were notified between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Carlson, of the FBI, said the temple's video surveillance system was not turned on Sunday so there is no recording of the shooting from inside the temple.

Searches of Page's residence, vehicle, a rented storage locker and space he had at a former employer have been conducted, she said.

Carlson said Page likely came to the Milwaukee area because of a now ex-girlfriend who lived here and who may have shared his white-power beliefs and has ties to white-supremacist groups.

South Milwaukee police arrested the ex-girlfriend, Misty Cook, 31, on Sunday on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm. A gun was observed in her residence in the 1400 block of Marquette Ave. when investigators were interviewing her Sunday after the temple shooting. Cook and Page had rented the residence together in February, and Cook continued living in the residence after she and Page broke up in June. He moved to a duplex in Cudahy, which also was searched.

Authorities said they believe Cook had no role in the shootings. Her arrest, Carlson said, was not connected to shootings in Oak Creek and has no relation to the investigation.

South Milwaukee Police Chief Ann Wellens said Cook was booked and released from the police station.

The case has not been presented to the Milwaukee County district attorney's office, Wellens said, and she was not certain when that would happen. Wellens said she expected a joint state and federal review of the Cook case. She could be charged in state or federal court.

Cook has cooperated with authorities.

Aisha Qidwae, Mike Johnson and John Diedrich of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.
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[dsingh]

Even a small kirpan can be handy but it depends upon the situation whether u have the gun or sword it depends how u react or mould according to situation .