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Gurdwara shooter Michael Page had committed suicide
Ashish Kumar Sen in Washington DC

Wade Michael Page, the 40-year-old White supremacist who went on a shooting spree at a gurdwara in Wisconsin on Sunday, committed suicide after sustaining a bullet injury to the stomach, law enforcement authorities said on Wednesday. Page was first struck by a blast from a police officer. He then shot himself in the head.

Law enforcement authorities also announced that they had arrested Page's former girlfriend, Misty Cook, a convicted felon, for possession of a firearm. Cook has not been charged. She worked at a restaurant a block away from the gurdwara.

At a press conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the FBI said it believed Page acted alone. "We don't believe that [Cook] had anything to do" with the gurdwara shooting, said Teresa Carlson, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Milwaukee division.

Cook declined to comment on the attack in an e-mail sent to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper. "If I could say something to ease the pain of the victims and their families I would gladly do so. Unfortunately words do not begin to heal the pain they are going through. I ask that you please respect my privacy in dealing with this issue as it is a great struggle for me," she wrote.

Hundreds of people held a vigil for the victims of the shooting in the Milwaukee suburb Oak Creek on Tuesday night. Six persons-five men and one woman-were killed in the shooting.