Mass Shooting In Sikh Temple, 7 Dead, Officer Shot

Seven people are dead after a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wis., this morning, according to police. Two others, a civilian and a police officer, were injured and were being treated at a local hospital. At least one suspected shooter is among the dead, Greenfield, Wis., Police Chief Brad Wentlandt said today. Police are still trying to determine if there was another shooter involved in the attack, during which at least one gunman walked into the temple around 10:25 a.m. and opened fire. Wentlandt said the calls reporting different shooters may be separate reports of the same gunman. "They went to church, not knowing that they might die today," said Simran Kaleka, whose family was in the temple, according to ABC News Radio. "I don't know how sick you have to be to do that, and I don't know if it was directed toward the Sikh culture and them having turbans and having beards, but ignorance is not going to get us anywhere." The first police officer to arrive on scene after a flurry of 911 calls exchanged gunfire with the shooter, receiving multiple gunshot wounds in the process. He was rushed into surgery at Froedtert Hospital, the main trauma center in the Milwaukee region, Wentlandt said. "An officer arrived and engaged a suspect. That officer was shot multiple times. He is expected to survive," Wentlandt told the news media. The gunman, he said, "is down on the scene and is presumed deceased." A single semi-automatic handgun was found at the scene. Four other people were found dead inside the temple, while three people, including the shooter, were found dead outside the building. Police were still performing tactical searches of the building to ensure that they had evacuated all of the injured people and cleared the building of any additional shooters.