0 Sikh temple leader died attempting to defend against gunman

Whenever a gunman burst in to the Sikh temple he'd devoted his existence to building within this small Wisconsin town, Sadwant Singh Kaleka snapped up the only real weapon at hands, a blunt ceremonial knife.

The confrontation did not last lengthy. The gunman -- recognized by police as 40-year-old military psy-operations veteran Wade Michael Page -- mercilessly cut lower the 65-year-old temple leader with shots from the 9mm hand gun.

But Kaleka slowed down the attacker just lengthy enough for those women planning the afternoon's meal to cover inside a kitchen but for the children attending Sunday school downstairs to flee the gunman's deadly gaze.

"He would be a hero through and thru,Inch Kaleka's boy Amardeep stated Monday.

"There could not happen to be a much better spot for him to put to relaxation."

Amardeep Kaleka was driving to temple on Sunday morning when his phone rang using the horrible news.

Another guy had snapped up his bleeding father and pulled him right into a nearby bathroom where they locked the doorway and interceded for help.

"He was saying your father's inside my ft -- we have to have an ambulance here," Kaleka told reporters.

The gunman had already shot a minimum of one part of the parking area. He wiped out five more -- including Sadwant Singh Kaleka -- before heading back outdoors to ambush law enforcement.

Lieutenant John Murphy, 51, was the first one to arrive just 3 or 4 minutes following the first call arrived for help.

He got from his vehicle and rushed to check up on an individual he saw lounging on the floor inside a pool of bloodstream.

However the gunman was laying in wait and shot Murphy 8 or 9 occasions "at very close range," Oak Creek police chief John Edwards told reporters.

Other officials were close behind and shot Page after he declined to put lower his weapon -- a hand gun which was legally acquired -- and opened up fire upon them, striking a couple of law enforcement cruiser motorcycles.

It required a couple of moments for those officials to understand Murphy was hurt.

Once they rushed to his aid, he attempted waving them off "and said excitedly to enter the temple to help individuals inside,” Edwards stated.

Murphy and 2 other shooting sufferers continued to be in critical condition Monday as authorities labored to uncover a motive.

The FBI has had charge since the shooting is recognized as a "possible domestic terrorism" incident. Page had ties to whitened supremacist groups.

Kaleka and the family found the United States from India in 1982. He built a effective business, and devoted every extra dollar he gained into building the Oak Creek temple.

Parishioners referred to him because the type of guy who, should you known as him at two each morning to state an easy choose to go out in the temple, could be there at 2:15 am to alter the bulb.

He was appreciated like a laid back guy who never lost his awesome or held a grudge. A guy who had been always prepared to help anybody and everybody. A renovator who loved existence and may talk your ear off.

"When I saw the image from the guy who required away my father's existence -- you appear at his face and it is filled with hollow avoid -- a dark void," Amandeep Kaleka stated after police launched the photo in a press conference.

"Personally I think lots of sadness towards that each... I am not going to replace it all with anger."

He hopes this shooting is going to be a chance for People in America to get together and also have a genuine conversation about race, religion and just how to construct more tolerance inside a nation of immigrants.