Seven killed in shooting at Wisconsin Sikh temple

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Channel: News Direct · 2012 · News & Politics

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Seven people are dead and three injured after a gunman opened fire at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin shortly before 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. The shooter, described by officials as a white military veteran in his early 40s, shot two people outside the temple before entering and shooting more people inside the temple. The shooter was shot and killed by a police officer as he shot another officer who was attending to a victim outside. Among those killed in the shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee, was temple president Satwant Kaleka, who had tried to fight off the shooter.

This reconstruction was based on information available as of 0130 EST.

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