President Obama ordered that American flags at the White House and other federal buildings be flown at half-staff through Friday in remembrance of the victims killed in the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin on Sunday.
Governor Bill Haslam also ordered today that flags will fly at half-staff in all state buildings through Friday as well.
Obama said in a statement today that Americans are quote, "heartbroken."
On Sunday, a lone gunman killed six people inside a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee.
The suspected gunman Wade Michael Page, 40, was a known white supremacist who had been kicked out of the Army in 1998.
Page was shot and killed by 32-year Oak Creek Police veteran Sam Lenda on scene.