Posted on Aug 5, 2022
Remembering the Oak Creek killings, a harbinger of white supremacist violence
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But for a notebook, it could have turned out very differently.
They were supposed to be at the Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, but Pardeep Singh Kaleka's daughter had made them turn back around.
"It was only because my daughter had forgot a notebook at the house," Kaleka says, "that we were not inside the temple at the time."
They were still 10 minutes away when a white supremacist walked into the Oak Creek, Wisc., Sikh temple and opened fire, shooting 10 people, killing six — seven if you count Baba Punjab Singh who was partially paralyzed and died from the wound in 2020.
Then he turned the gun on himself.
But for a notebook, it could have turned out very differently.
They were supposed to be at the Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, but Pardeep Singh Kaleka's daughter had made them turn back around.
"It was only because my daughter had forgot a notebook at the house," Kaleka says, "that we were not inside the temple at the time."
They were still 10 minutes away when a white supremacist walked into the Oak Creek, Wisc., Sikh temple and opened fire, shooting 10 people, killing six — seven if you count Baba Punjab Singh who was partially paralyzed and died from the wound in 2020.
Then he turned the gun on himself.
Remembering the Oak Creek killings, a harbinger of white supremacist violence
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"What happened at the Oak Creek massacre?
Community members attend a vigil days after the deadly mass shooting at Oak Creek's Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. The Oak Creek massacre signaled the rise of White supremacist violence. But the warnings went unheeded (CNN) No one in the Sikh community in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, could ever have imagined the horror that would unfold on August 5, 2012."
"What happened at the Oak Creek massacre?
Community members attend a vigil days after the deadly mass shooting at Oak Creek's Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. The Oak Creek massacre signaled the rise of White supremacist violence. But the warnings went unheeded (CNN) No one in the Sikh community in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, could ever have imagined the horror that would unfold on August 5, 2012."
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