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• NEW: Gov. Walker says the Sikh community lives the words of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Mourners gather in a high school gym for the memorial service
• Six Sikhs were killed in the shooting attack at their temple
• The gunman killed himself after being wounded by police

Oak Creek, Wisconsin (CNN) -- The Sikh community lived the words of slain civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. this week by responding with love to an attack that killed six Sikhs, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told a memorial service Friday.
Wearing an orange head covering in keeping with Sikh tradition, Walker quoted King's assertion that only love can overcome hate, and said he witnessed that truth in the aftermath of Sunday's attack at a Sikh temple in a Milwaukee suburb.
"This week, our friends and neighbors in the Sikh community have shown us the best way to respond is with love," the Republican governor told the hundreds of mourners who filled the Oak Creek High School gymnasium for the service.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder also was scheduled to speak at the service.
The killings Sunday at an Oak Creek gurdwara, or Sikh house of worship, ended when gunman Wade Michael Page shot himself after being wounded by police fire.
As Friday's service began, three Sikh musicians in dark turbans sat cross-legged on the ground next to a row of six coffins and large, framed photos of the dead.

Family members escort one of the six caskets into the public visitation Friday, August 10, as family, friends and supporters pay respect to the victims of the mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.

Mourners hug as community members pay respect at the Oak Creek High School. Suspected gunman, 40-year-old Wade Michael Page, is accused of killing six people at the temple on August 5. He killed himself at the scene. Three others were critically wounded in the attack.

Two women hug at the funeral.

A casket arrives for the memorial service.

Members of the Sikh community carry a casket into the high school for the service.

Family and friends gather at Oak Creek High School to mourn.

Two women hug at the service as they mourn the loss of the victims.


Funeral for Sikh shooting victims
Funeral for Sikh shooting victims
Funeral for Sikh shooting victims
Funeral for Sikh shooting victims
Funeral for Sikh shooting victims
Funeral for Sikh shooting victims
Funeral for Sikh shooting victims

Photos: Funeral for Sikh shooting victims

Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Human Rights Organization hold placards and candles during a vigil in Amritsar, India, on Tuesday, August 7, as they pay tribute to Sikh devotees killed in the U.S. The tragedy of the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting has reverberated worldwide.

Sikhs gather at Washington's Lafayette Park, across from the White House, for a Night of Remembrance of the Wisconsin Gurdwara Shootings on Wednesday, August 8. The man on the left is holding a poster of Oak Creek Police Officer Lt. Brian Murphy, who was shot multiple times as he pursued the gunman.

Photos of the victims are displayed during a candlelight vigil Wednesday in New York's Union Square. Six people were killed in the shooting Sunday, August 5, near Milwaukee.

A woman from the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin mourns during a candlelight vigil Tuesday, August 7, at the Oak Creek Community Center in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

Mourners and supporters of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin attend the vigil at the Oak Creek Community Center on Tuesday night.

Mourners continue to hold vigils such as the one Tuesday at the Oak Creek Community Center after the carnage left the local Sikh community reeling.

Peggy Renner-Howell bows her head after laying flowers Tuesday at a makeshift memorial near the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek.

A man visits the makeshift memorial near the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin on Tuesday.

Members of Wisconsin's Sikh community conduct a candlelight vigil on Monday, August 6, for the six people killed in suburban Milwaukee.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, along with members of the Sikh community, attends Monday's vigil at the Sikh Religious Society of Wisconsin for the victims of the shooting at the Sikh temple.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Sikh Religious Society of Wisconsin on Monday, August 6. The mourners pray for their neighbors killed in the attack on a Sikh temple.

Members of the Miwaukee-area Sikh community gather to learn information about the shooting spree of Wade Michael Page, 40, on Monday, August 6 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

A member of the Miwaukee-area Sikh community weeps as he listens to information about the shooting spree.

Harpreet Singh, left, and Amardeep Kaleka, right, whose father, temple President Satwant Kaleka, was killed in Sunday's shooting, cry during a news conference in Oak Creek.

Amardeep Kaleka is consoled at the command center near the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin on Monday.

News crews report Monday from outside Page's home in Cudahy, Wisconsin.

People console each other on Monday at the command center near the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.

SWAT officers surround a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, where a gunman whom authorities identified as Wade Michael Page, 40, stormed the building and opened fire on August 5. The incident left six people and the gunman dead.

SWAT officers gather in front of the temple Sunday. The attack occurred about 10:30 a.m., when temple members were reading scriptures and cooking food.

People wait for information in front of the temple as law enforcement officers secure the area.

Police work outside the entrance to the temple, near Milwaukee.

Police man an armored vehicle outside the temple.

A tactical officer runs to position as SWAT officers surround the temple.

A woman wipes away a tear outside the Sikh temple.

People wait for word on family and friends in front of the Sikh temple. The Oak Creek temple, or gurdwara, opened in 2007.

Police coordinate outside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, where the rampage took place.

A police officer directs people near the temple.

An officer works to secure a neighborhood in Cudahy, Wisconsin, on Sunday.

Officers take cover behind a vehicle as they secure the neighborhood where the shooter is believed to have lived in Cudahy, Wisconsin.


Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin

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Shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin

Families remember shooting victims

Temple member reacts to shooting

Shocking details on Sikh temple rampage
Mourners slowly walked past, including Sikhs in their traditional turbans and non-Sikhs using scarves and handkerchiefs to cover their heads in keeping with Sikh custom.
"You have taken this life. This is your will," a prayer leader said between hymns sung over somber music. "We accept your will. Please give us strength to bear this loss."
Remembering the victims
Overhead, a large video screen displayed projected photos of the dead and wounded in the attack, including police Lt. Brian Murphy, who remains hospitalized from multiple gunshot wounds after being the first responder to the temple on Sunday.
At one point, a group of seven uniformed police officers joined the line to pay their respects, with some embracing family members of the victims.
Killed were five men -- Satwant Singh Kaleka, 65; Sita Singh, 41; Ranjit Singh, 49; Prakash Singh, 39; Suveg Singh, 84 -- and one woman, 41-year-old Paramjit Kaur.
Two other Sikhs wounded in the attack also remain hospitalized, while another was treated and released earlier this week.
On Thursday, temple members swept, scrubbed and painted over damage to their building after investigators allowed them back inside. A lone bullet hole remained in a metal door frame, which members say won't be repaired.
The attacker was a 40-year-old former soldier-turned-front man for a white supremacist rock band. He killed himself in the parking lot of the gurdwara after being shot by a police officer, the FBI said Wednesday.
Investigators say they found no clues to explain why Page went on the killing spree. Former Army colleagues said he espoused racist views during his military stint in the 1990s that became more pervasive after he left the service.
Siblings ran to warn others of shooting
The incident occurred slightly more than two weeks after a shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, left 12 people dead and 58 wounded.
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who visited the gurdwara on Thursday, said more massacres will come unless the United States tightens up its gun laws.
"It's easy to be polite to say 'We're so sorry this happened' and give the same speech at the next killing a month from now," Jackson said, calling for a move from "politeness to a change in policy."
A CNN/ORC International poll released Thursday indicates that the public remains divided on gun laws, with 50% saying they favor no restrictions or only minor restrictions on firearm ownership and 48% supporting major restrictions or a complete ban by individuals except police and other authorized personnel.
Those numbers are identical to where they were in 2011, and the number who support major restrictions or a complete ban has remained in the 48%-to-50% range for more than a decade.
The CNN survey was conducted by ORC International on Tuesday and Wednesday, after the attack on the Sikh temple.
Sikhs repair, reclaim temple after rampage
CNN's Tom Cohen, Poppy Harlow and David Mattingly contributed to this report.