Shooting, hostage-taking at Wisconsin Sikh temple

[RogueBeaver]

Breaking on CNN right now. Potentially multiple shooters.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/reports-of-people-shot-at-sikh-temple-in-oak-creek-qc6cgc0-165059506.html

[RogueBeaver]

Confirmed 1 dead, 3 injured.

[For Oklahoma]

Jeez...this is awful. Condolences to the families of those affected.

[RogueBeaver]

The gunman was the fatality.

Update: potentially 2 other gunmen holding hostages.

[Senator Clarence]

Just terrible....

[RogueBeaver]

7 dead including the shooter. There was only 1 shooter.

[Likely Voter]

One of the temple's committee members, Ven Boba Ri, said that based on communication with people inside the temple, 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."

According to Ri, the man started shooting after he walked up to a priest who was standing outside, and shot him.

Then he went inside and started shooting.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/reports-of-people-shot-at-sikh-temple-in-oak-creek-qc6cgc0-165059506.html

Well that's just f--king great.

[Fuzzy]

This is horrible.  My condolences to all those affected.

[For Oklahoma]

7 dead including the shooter. There was only 1 shooter.

Jesus.

[Comrade Funk]

My condolences. RIP to the six victims.

[The Mikado]

Horrifying.  My condolences to the victims.

[Frodo]

He must have thought they were Muslims. 

[Governor Scott]

My prayers are with the victims.  The violence going on in this country is inconceivable.

[Senator Sbane]

Wow this is horrible. Sikhs basically take the brunt of anti-Muslim bigotry in America.

[Gravis Marketing]

It's very likely this was a hate crime but we can wait a few hours to learn more about the shooter and any background there is about him...

[Nhoj]

He must have thought they were Muslims. 

He probably did actually, I cant think of any reason anyone would hate sikhs.

[Senator Sbane]

He must have thought they were Muslims. 

He probably did actually, I cant think of any reason anyone would hate sikhs.

This is a well established pattern. After 9/11, it was Sikhs who were mostly targeted by anti-Muslim bigots. But we can wait and see what the case was here.

[Ghyl Tarvoke]

Sbane has more or less posted what I was thinking... except one thing, why do these happen in your country much more than anywhere else? This is a very serious question so I am eagerly awaiting the inevitable moment when this thread gets derailed into yet another pointless debate about weapons access.

[RogueBeaver]

If I'm remembering one of the police briefings correctly the suspect is a white man.

[asexual trans victimologist]

I just saw this thread. This is awful. I can't imagine what there is about Sikhs to possibly hate, and I hope the bastard who did this is brought to a swift and lifelong justice so he can sit and stew and think about what he's done.

[RogueBeaver]

I just saw this thread. This is awful. I can't imagine what there is about Sikhs to possibly hate, and I hope the bastard who did this is brought to a swift and lifelong justice so he can sit and stew and think about what he's done.

He was shot dead by police.

[asexual trans victimologist]

I just saw this thread. This is awful. I can't imagine what there is about Sikhs to possibly hate, and I hope the bastard who did this is brought to a swift and lifelong justice so he can sit and stew and think about what he's done.

He was shot dead by police.

In that case I hope he is suffered to do so in whatever afterlife might await him.

I don't know what made me think they caught him alive. That's almost never how these things go.

[phk]

The most likely issue here is that turban-wearing Sikhs look more like bin Laden than actual Muslims do.

[For Oklahoma]

So another person targeting Muslims? Great.

[MasterJedi]

Terrible thing, it was obviously all over the news here. Only 6 miles from where I live so you could hear the sirens all day from other departments coming in as backup.