Sikh Temple - A Knoxville Sikh Couple Heart - Broken Over Temple Shooting

KNOXVILLE (WATE) Sunday's tragic capturing in Wisconsin hit property with regard to individuals throughout East Tennessee.

There will be a great estimated 30 Sikh households around Knoxville along with two temples.

One several had been quite shaken by the recent events.

"Our paper hearts usually are busted for anyone people who have encountered this," Rai Singh Kahlsa said.

Rai Singh Kahlsa in addition to her partner Rai Kaur Kahlsa fear the firing occurred while worshipers around Wisconsin were arranging for your company with Sikh forehead and also "Guardwada."

"You might simply just picture inside your thoughts in which horror that ensued any time the following happened,"Rai Kaur Kahlsa said. "It's simply completely devastating."

The pair life in Knoxville, and had been both equally created with America.

"Sikhs to be a group, specifically around America, we're a real minority," Rai Singh Kahlsa said. "We accomplish really feel a specific family bond."

They express this Knoxville community is receiving involving them. But the particular couple considers the particular shooting way up north might have been due to wrong identity.

Sikhs will often be confused with Muslims.

"To assume this someone may have performed in which as a possible action of intolerance toward a number of people that are usually so inclusive to help their is convinced is actually heart-breaking," Rai Singh said.

Investigators are deprived of a new objective from the shooting. Until next the couple speculates on the reason a gunman took all those lives.

"I should believe the item had to want to do something to do with a number of deranged notion associated with many sense regarding separation out of this specific group of individuals around his mind," Rai Kaur Kalsa said.

For them, this particular misfortune likewise provides backside memories regarding this 2008 Knoxville Unitarian Universalist cathedral shooting.

Rai Kaur and Rai Singh point out the particular Unitarians look like a good , long family that will them.

"We only were feeling like very, similar to a part of loved ones bought attacked, and it also looks again, today, this had been exactly the same type of feeling," said Rai Singh.

We spoke that will your leader on the neighborhood Sikh temple , who pronounces that congregation is definitely praying with the victims.

They usually are still looking to understand what they might carry out the following and what they could accomplish to support that congregation within Wisconsin.