BREAKING: Shooting at Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis.

[jAZ]

Oh hell. Possible hostages inside including children. 20-30 shot.

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Aug 05, 2012
BREAKING: Shooting at Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis.
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By Natalie DiBlasio, USA TODAY
Updated 2m ago

Several people have been injured in a shooting incident at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., just south of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.

Update at 2:16 p.m.: Lee Biblo, chief medical officer at Froedtert Hospital, tells CNN that the injured are all adults, all male and all in critical condition.

Update at 1:59 p.m. ET: The police cannot give a victim count or a suspect count.

A police officer on the scene says that one officer was shot multiple times and one suspect was shot and is down. A police officer will give another update at 1:30 CT.

Update at 1:51 p.m. ET: Sukhwindar Nagr says he called his brother-in-law's phone and a priest at the temple answered, telling him that his brother-in-law had been shot, along with three priests.

Nagr says the priest also said women and children were hiding in closets at the temple.

Update at 1:38 p.m. ET: There are more than a dozen ambulances parked outside the temple, and police have corralled media and a handful of bystanders to an area near the temple, AP reports.

Update at 1:25 p.m. ET: Two men have been admitted to Froedtert hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. One is in critical condition in the surgical intensive care unit; the other has been sent to an operating room, CNN reports.

Update at 1:23 p.m. ET: Fran McLaughlin, spokeswoman for the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department, says a call came in at 10:26 a.m. CT. She says officers are at the scene but she has no other information to report, AP reports.

Update at 1:13 ET: Two shooters are possibly still inside with children as hostages, according to someone who sent a text message to a Journal Sentinel reporter, the Journal-Sentinel reports.

CNN is reporting that the shooter is at large.

Update at 1:07 ET: Reports of 20 to 30 shot at Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, possible hostages, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.

There are reports that the head priest was locked inside a restroom with a cell phone and said there were as many as 30 victims in temple.

As of about noon, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office said it had not been called to the scene.

Meanwhile, Brookfield police officers were dispatched to the Sikh Temple at 3675 N. Calhoun Road as a precaution in the aftermath of the Oak Creek shooting.

At least three squads were at the temple in Waukesha County.

About 50 people were at the Brookfield temple for a morning service and many of them went outside after they learned of the shooting in Oak Creek.

Original post: The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinelis reporting that multiple people, an undetermined number between 8 and 20, have been injured in a shooting incident at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., just south of Milwaukee.

The shooting took place around 11 a.m. local time at the Sikh Temple, 7512 S. Howell Ave., in Oak Creek.

Oak Creek police, the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department and other law enforcement agencies have responded.

[The Rick]

Crazy stuff...this happened about 15 minutes from my house!

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by The Rick

Crazy stuff...this happened about 15 minutes from my house!

Have they identified the shooter yet?

[The Rick]

No, not yet. Another press conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM. I'm guessing they'll identify him then.

They are serving a search warrant at a duplex not too far from the temple. Sounds like it's the shooter's residence and that he moved there less than a month ago.

[The Rick]

Originally Posted by The Rick

No, not yet. Another press conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM. I'm guessing they'll identify him then.

They are serving a search warrant at a duplex not too far from the temple. Sounds like it's the shooter's residence and that he moved there less than a month ago.

People in the neighborhood of the home they're searching have been evacuated...

[Aries Walker]

During the Batman shooting, the police were on site within 90 seconds. This time, the rampage was ended by a policeman, and another was apparently very seriously wounded while stepping in.

So a tip of the hat to the police lately. Good job.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by tk13

Well, this was a news thread. Starting to look like the typical stew of bitter mental illness they usually serve for dinner in DC though.

Most of the crazy seems to come from lounge people who freak out at the possibility that politics might be in the air.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by patteeu

He didn't blame the media for this event.

You didn't read my post.

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by The Rick

No, not yet. Another press conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM. I'm guessing they'll identify him then.

They are serving a search warrant at a duplex not too far from the temple. Sounds like it's the shooter's residence and that he moved there less than a month ago.

There ya go.....red flag #1

[WilliamTheIrish]

Red flag, black flag.

I get confused. But keep me up to date on this.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by patteeu

Most of the crazy seems to come from lounge people who freak out at the possibility that politics might be in the air.

Not really. I think there are many of us who enjoy and follow politics. Unfortunately there is a significant subset of semi-decent people who are triggered into becoming a psycho about political subjects, so you all must be relegated to the basement where you won't embarrass the rest of us marginally semi-normal folks in front of the house guests. But that's pretty much politics in a nutshell. "Oh, I couldn't have possibly done anything wrong, let's see how we can deflect the blame of our insanity onto someone else."

[CoMoChief]

So how many were there? This guy says (at least) 4 people?

I'm sure it was a white supremacist hate group though. Surely the govt wouldn't be behind something like this.

[tk13]

I did think it was odd some of the early witnesses said there was more than one shooter. But people freak out in these kind of crisis situations.

Either way, if this really was a conspiracy you can almost guarantee they wouldn't make a simple logical mistake like that. I don't think that lends credence to a conspiracy at all. In fact you could argue it'd make it less likely.

[Aries Walker]

In 1966, Charles Whitman went on a shooting spree from the UT clock tower in Austin, Texas. The party of Rangers and Deputy Sheriffs who climbed the tower to stop him were fired on by civilian riflemen on the ground, even after Whitman was shot and killed. It took a while to discover, and then to alert the general public, that Whitman had acted alone.

Thinking there are multiple shooters is nothing new. Let's give the over-excited news outlets a day or so to get their stories straight.

[CoMoChief]

[Aries Walker]

Oh, come on. You're disrespecting the victims, cops, and country by shouting "false flag" at the first sign of a tragedy like this. Even if you're somehow correct, there are still a half dozen dead parishioners, a hero cop fighting for his life, and a nation full of people who are tired of seeing our neighbors get killed by psychopaths while they were supposed to feel safe. If you want to spew your bizarre conspiracy theories, fine, you're allowed, but give it a couple of days at least.