you heard thomas ahern, white male roughly in his 40s. we're hearing he was bald. information about the shooter, what do you know? >> reporter: one thing we do know, both areas are crime scenes. authorities did evacuate homes around the home belonging to the alleged gunman. they have to question these neighbors anyway and need to make sure there are no weapons or explosives in the home that could create potential problems and one reason why they wanted to evacuate nearby homes. that gunman, keep in mind, he was shot just moments after going on this rampage inside that sikh temple and opened fire on six people killing them and then opened fire at two police officers one critical, wounded, spent much of the day in surgery, in the operating room. three others in critical condition. >> one officer was able to fire back and killed that gunman. a weapon found near him, described as a semiautomatic handgun. when you think about what's going on inside that temple. the devotees just finished a three-day celebration they read the holy book cover to cover, a day where they st

here's thomas ahern with chicago's atf division. >> a white male, approximately 40 years of age.hat's all we have. as far as his motive, we're a long way from that right now. the situation is still very fluid with the warrants being served at his residence and the scene still being processed. there's a lot of interviews that need to take place with witnesses inside the temple and so forth and just to reconstruct the crime scene and the time line of this is still a ways off. >> thomas ahern with the atf. now let's talk with dr. rajawan singh, the chairman of the sikh council on religion and education. of course, now comes a really tough job of burying, sadly, the people who were lost there. the community has been galvanized to see that some good comes out of this. we spoke about that. what happens next for these folks in the sikh community? >> well, we are already receiving messages from sikh leaders and activists from all over the country. there's already a drive to collect funds for the victims as well as the police officers. we want to support the community nationally. of cours