Flags fly at half-staff in all state and federal buildings

8:48 PM, Aug 6, 2012   |    comments
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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.