The president of the Sikh Gurudwara or temple in Oak Tree Wisconsin is hailed "hero" by Fox News and other civilians who say that he tried so save as many lives as possible in Sunday's massacre before he was shot to death by Wade Michael Page. Witnesses tell the media that Satwant Singh Kaleka, 65 made sure to lead women and children to shelter, he then took a kitchen knife and attempted to stab the shooter multiple times in order to save the remaining civilians, but was shot to death.
Today, in addition to mourning the death of five other civilians, the Wisconsin Sikh community is calling Kaleka a "hero." According to Fox News, FBI agents told Kaleka's son, "your father is a hero."
The alleged shooter has been identified as 40-year-old U.S. military Wade Michael Page. He has been identified as a member of a racist organization called Skinhead Band Apathy in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He joined the organization in 2010, but has showed racist proclivity from much earlier than that, in 2000, according to Director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, Page purchased items from a neo-Nazi group called National Alliance.
On Sunday, Page opened fire in a Sikh Temple in Oak Tree, Wisconsin, where he fired at over two dozen people. According to reports by NBC News and ABC News, Page is being described as Page a "white supremacist" or "skinhead." Authorities confirmed to NBC News that he was "some kind of radical or white supremacist views, but was apparently not a member of any kind of radical organization."
