Chicago Magazine Photographer: Cover photoshoot for Positively Aware
Sikhs attend a vigil in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 7, 2012. A gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at a Sikh temple on Sunday before police shot him dead in an attack authorities are treating as an act of domestic terrorism. REUTERS/John Gress
I’m glad that my time on the Sikh temple shooting has apparently come to an end as I write you this morning from my home in Chicago. I worked 16 hours the last few days covering the story… photographers don’t live for these moments… the fact is seeing people grieve is never easy, but our goal remains the same – to tell the story in a way that will have an impact on people.
Sikhs attend a vigil in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 7, 2012. REUTERS/John Gress
By Edith Honan
(Reuters) – Women at the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin were busily preparing lunch in the community kitchen on Sunday when two children burst in and screamed frantically they had seen a man with a gun outside.People began running in every direction, and 14 women, along with the two children, rushed into a narrow pantry in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek. There was no lock, and so the women pressed their bodies up against the door to keep anyone from entering, witnesses said.
“Everyone was falling on top of one another,” said Parminder Toor, 54, speaking in Punjabi as her daughter-in-law, Jaskiran Kaur, translated. “It was dark and we were all crammed in…Read More“
A memorial honors the six victims of a shooting at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 7, 2012. REUTERS/John Gress
A law enforcement officer walks past the enterance to the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 7, 2012. REUTERS/John Gress
Ben Giese takes out a hand gun, very similar to the gun used alleged gunman Wade Michael Page can be seen at The Shooters Shop, where he purchased the weapon in West Allis, Wisconsin, on August 7, 2012. The gun used in the crime was the crime was identical, only it had a shorter barrel. The semiautomatic handgun used in the deadly attack on a Wisconsin Sikh temple is the same type used in other recent U.S. mass shootings, including one at a theater in Colorado, and the attack on a congresswoman in Arizona, gun experts said. Page used a Springfield 9mm semiautomatic handgun to carry out the attack at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, officials said. REUTERS/John Gress
A hand gun, very similar to the gun used by alleged gunman Wade Michael Page, is seen at The Shooter Shop, where Page purchased the weapon, in West Allis, Wisconsin, August 7, 2012. The gun used in the crime was the crime was identical, only it had a shorter barrel. REUTERS/John Gress
Sikhs show photos of six mass shooting victims after a candlelight vigil in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 7, 2012. REUTERS/John Gress
Sikh's attend a vigil in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 7, 2012. REUTERS/John Gress
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