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

KNOXVILLE (WATE) Sunday's destructive capturing around Wisconsin make residence for those here in East Tennessee.

There tend to be a great believed 30 Sikh people around Knoxville and also two temples.

One several had been really shaken from the recent events.

"Our minds are broken for all people who have sustained this," Rai Singh Kahlsa said.

Rai Singh Kahlsa as well as your girlfriend spouse Rai Kaur Kahlsa fear this snapping shots took place as worshipers around Wisconsin were arranging to get a service throughout Sikh forehead or "Guardwada."

"You could simply image in your head that horror that will ensued while that happened,"Rai Kaur Kahlsa said. "It's merely totally devastating."

The couple lives within Knoxville, along with had been equally born in America.

"Sikhs to be a group, mainly with America, we could a great minority," Rai Singh Kahlsa said. "We do really feel a clear family bond."

They claim this Knoxville town is definitely taking of them. But that small number feels the taking pictures upwards north might have been as a result of wrongly recognized identity.

Sikhs can be mixed up together with Muslims.

"To imagine that somebody might possess executed in which just as one work of intolerance near a group of individuals who will be consequently comprehensive recommended to their feels is heart-breaking," Rai Singh said.

Investigators don't have got a objective within the shooting. Until and then that small number speculates with precisely why a new gunman needed almost all people lives.

"I ought to imagine that needed to want to do something to do with many deranged idea of several feeling involving divorce out of this particular number of people today in his mind," Rai Kaur Kalsa said.

For them, that misfortune additionally brings back remembrances in the 2008 Knoxville Unitarian Universalist rec center shooting.

Rai Kaur and also Rai Singh state that Unitarians feel similar to an extended household for you to them.

"We just simply were feeling like very, just like section of household got attacked, and yes it looks again, today, it absolutely was a similar form of feeling," said Rai Singh.

We talked to be able to the particular us president of the local Sikh temple , exactly who pronounces that congregation is praying for that victims.

They are still trying ascertain just what exactly they can accomplish right here and also exactly what they can carry out to aid the particular congregation with Wisconsin.