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But for a notebook, it could have turned out very differently.
They were supposed to be at the Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, but Pardeep Singh Kaleka's daughter had made them turn back around.
"It was only because my daughter had forgot a notebook at the house," Kaleka says, "that we were not inside the temple at the time."
They were still 10 minutes away when a white supremacist walked into the Oak Creek, Wisc., Sikh temple and opened fire, shooting 10 people, killing six — seven if you count Baba Punjab Singh who was partially paralyzed and died from the wound in 2020.
Then he turned the gun on himself.