Baba Punjab Singh, age 72

Lost to gun violence on August 5, 2012 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

More than seven years after the attack on the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Baba Punjab Singh, a well-known Sikh priest who was grievously wounded and had been paralyzed during the assault, died on Feb. 29, 2020, at 72, from complications of the gunshot wounds he suffered in 2012, making him the eighth official death of the mass shooting.

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