Vigils held for Sikh shooting victims
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Members and supporters of the Sikh community held vigils on Wednesday evening (August 8), in memory of the victims of a shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
Several hundred people gathered in Washington and New York, saying prayers and holding candles and signs to show their solidarity.
A supremacist gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at the temple last Sunday (August 5).
A police officer shot and wounded the gunman in the stomach outside the temple in Oak Creek.
The FBI said the 40-year-old suspect, Wade Page, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Members and supporters of the Sikh community held vigils on Wednesday evening (August 8), in memory of the victims of a shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
Several hundred people gathered in Washington and New York, saying prayers and holding candles and signs to show their solidarity.
A supremacist gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at the temple last Sunday (August 5).
A police officer shot and wounded the gunman in the stomach outside the temple in Oak Creek.
The FBI said the 40-year-old suspect, Wade Page, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.