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Gunman opens fire at Sikh temple in Wisconsin; 7 dead
NBCNews ^ | August 5, 2012

Posted on 08/05/2012 12:28:58 PM PDT by Red Steel

By NBC News and wire services

Updated at 2:57 p.m. ET: A gunman opened fire Sunday morning at a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, killing at least six people and wounding a police officer before being shot to death, police said.

Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt, acting as public information officer at the scene, said the shooting was reported at 10:25 a.m. at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, south of Milwaukee along Lake Michigan. The shooting happened shortly before Sunday services were to begin.

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A police officer who is a 20-year law enforcement veteran responded to the scene and confronted a gunman outstide the temple. The officer was shot multiple times, Wendlandt said. The officer returned fire, striking and killing the gunman. The wounded officer was taken to a hospital where he was undergoing surgery.

Wendlandt said four bodies were found inside the temple and three, including the suspected gunman, were outside.

He did not identify or describe the victims.

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Earlier, at least four people were seen covered on the ground outside the temple. The temple's president was among those shot, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.

Sukhwindar Nagr, of Racine, said he called his brother-in-law's phone and a priest at the temple answered, The Associated Press reported. Nagr said the priest told him that his brother-in-law had been shot

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A temple committee member, Ven Boba Ri, told the Journal-Sentinel that people inside the temple described the shooter was a white male in his 30s.

"We have no idea," he said of the motive. "It's pretty much a hate crime. It's not an insider."

Ri told the Journal-Sentinel the gunman walked up to a priest who was standing outside the temple and shot him. Then he went inside and started shooting.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: banglist; india; racine; shooting; sikh; sikhs; wadepage; waronterror; wisconsin
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To: mnehring

Alex Jones was not the first person to be talking about the connections and there is more than just working at the Pentagon at different times.


21 posted on 08/05/2012 1:00:46 PM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: Red Steel
Gunman opens fire at Sikh temple in Wisconsin; 7 dead

Wow, that's ALMOST a normal weekend in Chicago!

22 posted on 08/05/2012 1:01:20 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: nolongerademocrat
Fine, you don’t think it is odd that the news stopped covering the Colorado incident as soon as Hillary didn’t sign that treaty?

NO, not when the People turned out in huge numbers to purchase more weapons.

Dude in CO, this dude are nut cases, quit looking for the bogey man under your bed.

23 posted on 08/05/2012 1:01:53 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: Red Steel; All

When I lived in New Mexico in the 90s, they were THE security for all the government buildings and banks.

This shooter wouldn’t have made it past the temple gates.


24 posted on 08/05/2012 1:03:26 PM PDT by paintriot (I've seen too much.....)
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To: Tzimisce
We need to legalize Gay Marriage and raise taxes and stuff like this won’t happen.

And stack even more illegals into pickup trucks.

25 posted on 08/05/2012 1:05:44 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Okay, you tell me why: After the Colorado shooting I googled the connection between the doctors and there were hundreds of thousands of hits and when I googled it just now, there were 7.


26 posted on 08/05/2012 1:06:04 PM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: John Leland 1789

Each time some crud commits this sort of mayhem a couple of similar incidents follow shortly afterward.
This would be #2 after Aurora, expect at least one more.

Seems the lunatics all want to the “Most” famous of the moment, they appear to be in competition for liberal media attention.

Media coverage has to be at least as responsible for these incidents as video games, single parents, and “Moral decline”.
The media are careful to use these vermin’s full names, including their middle name.

When I was growing up using a persons full name was a sign of respect.
Compare how often the media use Mitt Romneys FULL name.


27 posted on 08/05/2012 1:10:03 PM PDT by Loyal Sedition
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To: Red Steel

ABC and Brian Ross are reporting that the shooter was a Tea Party member.


28 posted on 08/05/2012 1:10:42 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est; zero sera dans l'enfer bientot.)
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To: Red Steel

This is too bad, Sikh’s are GOOD people!


29 posted on 08/05/2012 1:11:25 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: Loyal Sedition
And so the rash of media-driven copy-cats begins!

Exactly. The media is causing what they say they are trying to stop .And the media are doing it on purpose.

30 posted on 08/05/2012 1:11:33 PM PDT by rurgan (Sunset all laws at 4 years.China is destroying U.S. ability to manufacture,makes everything)
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To: paintriot

> When I lived in New Mexico in the 90s, they were THE
> security for all the government buildings and banks.

The security company Securitas which provides security for many government, military and private buildings in the US and other countries is owned by a Sikh. Among those they hire are retired FBI agents, military and local police officers.


31 posted on 08/05/2012 1:12:27 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: paintriot
This shooter wouldn’t have made it past the temple gates.


Buckingham Palace Guard

32 posted on 08/05/2012 1:15:32 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Red Steel
The officer returned fire, striking and killing the gunman

Great shooting!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery for the officer involved.

33 posted on 08/05/2012 1:15:57 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: Red Steel

Schumer’s intent!


34 posted on 08/05/2012 1:16:27 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
Dude in CO, this dude are nut cases,

It's a theory on your part. No better than anybody else's at this point.

35 posted on 08/05/2012 1:17:52 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Goode over evil. Voting for mitt or obie is like throwing your country away.)
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To: Red Steel

NBC is reporting that Sarah Palin thought that WI would be a battleground state and that she is helping the GOP to target WI. Reporters are being dispatched to AK to question her involvement with this hate crime.
Harry Reid has stated that he has an unidentified source that the Romney campaign knew about the shooter, but failed to notify authorities.
Mayor Bloomberg says that the Shiks should not have carried knives in their turbans and these items should be banned.


36 posted on 08/05/2012 1:19:23 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est; zero sera dans l'enfer bientot.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

moslem convert alert, ‘kill the heathens wherever you find him’ from the koran


37 posted on 08/05/2012 1:19:40 PM PDT by STD ([You must help] people in theÂ…feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Any bets on how long it will take the MSM to blame this on the Tea Party and conservative Republicans? I suppose I should toss Rush and FOX News onto that list. I’m guessing less than 24 hours.


38 posted on 08/05/2012 1:19:49 PM PDT by airedale
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To: Jyotishi; Red Steel

In Santa Fe the company was AKAL Security. Another Sikh owned company. They also hire ex FBI, Mil, and PD.

And yes Sikhs are good people.


39 posted on 08/05/2012 1:20:31 PM PDT by paintriot (I've seen too much.....)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
There is a conspiracy here and it is as plain as the nose on your face. All these shooting incidences have one connecting factor; the gunmen all used guns! :-P

A connector can always be found. Knowing when it matters is the difference in rationality and insanity.

40 posted on 08/05/2012 1:21:35 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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