. >> reporter: amardeep kalika's father. killed inside the temple. >> and they're saying that the people are still in there. >> ambulance up, subject down. >> reporter: among the first on the scene, 51-year-old brian murphree. >> he shot at close range. >> reporter: the shooter, an army veteran, because of longtime ties to the neo-nazi world wade michael page. the shooting should help focus attention on the shadowy world in which page became there. >> reporter: officers came in seeking to help lieutenant murphy. >> he'd been shot nine times. one of them very serious in the neck area and whaeved them off to tell them go into the temple to assist those in there. >> reporter: today with oak creek and others around the country in mourning, three people were hospitalized, including the police lieutenant. and members of the sikh community are trying to understand why they, a rather peaceful organization have been targeted by what police call a domestic act of terror. >> it looks to me that this time, i'm very, very scared of this