Gurudwara shooting: 'Motive may never be known'
Gurudwara shooting: 'Motive may never be known'
Local police chief says the motive behind the shooting may never be known as the shooter also died in the incident.

Oak Creek (Wisconsin): Days into the investigations of the shooting incident at the Gurdwara in Oak Creek, federal agencies were clueless of what prompted the former soldier's rampage that killed six people and fear that the motive may have died with him.

With the killer Wade Michael Page, 41, an Army veteran dead, killed by the police after the shooting at a Milwaukee gurdwara, the investigators warn that that the motive may never be known.

"We may end up with just a lot of facts on what he is involved with, who he may be associated with, but we may never know that motive, because he died, and that motive died with him," Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards was quoted by CNN as saying.

Although detectives are following up leads in several states, law experts quoted by the media feel that their findings might never be presented in court.

At the moment investigators are sifting through the life of Page, assembling the biodata of a man, who apparently has few relative and friends, a patchy work life and a thin criminal record.

The federal investigators and the police detectives are also collecting data about the white supremacist to get to the bottom of what motivated him to carry out the gruesome act. But they are apprehensive whether the full story behind the attack will ever be known.

The FBI has taken over the case but released little official information.

In sketchy details, the fragments of Page's past that have emerged suggest that he lived a troubled life.

The police are following the leads whether Page held a personal grudge against the Sikhs or was he motivated by racist ideology, that could lead investigators to collect intelligence on white supremacist groups to prevent future such attacks.

CNN quoted Sikh groups in US as fearing that though Page may be dead other white supremacist and neo-nazi groups could harbour similar intentions.

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