Oak Creek, Wisconsin
While many are still trying to come to terms with the recent theater shooting in Colorado, another mass attack has occurred.
A gunman opened fire Sunday and killed six people at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee before he was killed in an exchange of gunfire with the first officer to respond to the chaotic scene, authorities said.
One federal agent said that tattoos on the body of the slain Sikh temple gunman and certain biographical details led them to believe the attack at a Milwaukee-area temple was an act of domestic terrorism.
“The investigation will have to continue to see and determine the motive,” said a federal law enforcement official who had been briefed on the early planning for the case. “We don’t know much about the motive at this point.”
The name of the gunman has not been released.
Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards said that two officers responded to the initial 911 call and that one of them was “ambushed” while checking on a victim and was shot several times. The gunman then shot at the other officer, who returned fire and killed the shooter, Edwards said.
“Because of the heroic actions of our officers, they stopped this from being worse than it could have been,” Edwards said at an afternoon news briefing.
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