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A shooting during Sunday services at a Sikh temple left at least seven people dead, including a gunman, and at least three critically wounded, police and hospital officials said.
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Four people were shot inside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee and three outside, including the gunmann killed by a police officer, said Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt.
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"This is the best information we have, and this information may change," he told reporters outside the temple.
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Smiran Kaleka, the niece of one of the wounded men, said an unknown number of gunmen walked into the kitchen of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek about 10:30 a.m. CDT (11.30 a.m. EDT) and started shooting. She said her mother had told her the shooters were white men.
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The 20-year veteran officer who exchanged fire with the gunman was hit several times, Wentlandt said.
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He was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive.
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Witnesses said hostages were being held inside the temple but police did not confirm this.
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A man who said his father had been wounded in the incident reported that there had been multiple shooters of Caucasian descent, quoting people inside the temple.
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Police, ambulances and firefighters from Oak Creek and other localities were on the scene at the temple.
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"It was a very coordinated thing," the man, identified as Amardeep Kaleka, told police.
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"How sick do you have to be to walk into a church and shoot it up?" said Smiran Kaleka.
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Greenfield Police Chief Brad Wentlandt said multiple 911 calls were received this morning about a gunman or gunmen. He said the first police officer responding to the calls engaged an active shooter at the temple. The officer was shot multiple times, but returned fire, and the suspect, Wentlandt said, was "put down."
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The dispatcher for Oak Creek Fire Department said first reports of the shooting occurred about 10:30 a.m. local time (11.30 a.m. EDT). The shooting came just two weeks after the massacre in Aurora, Colorado, where 12 people were killed.
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A shooting during Sunday services at a Sikh temple left at least seven people dead, including a gunman, and at least three critically wounded, police and hospital officials said.
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