Washington: US President Barack Obama said on Monday that Americans would "recoil" if Sunday's Sikh temple shootings in Wisconsin were "motivated in some way by the ethnicity of those who were attending."
"Regardless of what we look like, where we come from, who we worship, we are all one people and we look after one another and we respect one another," the president said.
President Obama spoke to reporters in the Oval Office after he signed unrelated legislation at the White House.
A civil rights group identified him as a "frustrated neo-Nazi" who led a white supremacist band.
"We've been tracking the suspect in the Wisconsin shooting for a little more than a decade. We know that he has traversed one of the most violent parts of the white supremacist scene, namely the racist skinhead music scene," said the Southern Poverty Law Centre's Heidi Beirich.
Authorities said Page strode into the temple carrying a 9 millimetre handgun and multiple magazines of ammunition and opened fire without saying a word.
Page joined the military in Milwaukee in 1992 and was a repairman for the Hawk missile system before switching jobs to become one of the army's psychological operations specialists assigned to a battalion at Fort Bragg.
Authorities said suburban Milwaukee police had no contact with Page before Sunday's shooting, and his record gave no indication he was capable of such violence.
"We're going to see more of this kind of violence by people who simply can't handle the changing demographics," she said, referring to the increasing percentage of non-white Americans.
The FBI is leading the investigation into the attack because the shooting was considered a possible act of domestic "terrorism".
The agency said it had no reason to believe anyone other than Page was involved.
"Regardless of what we look like, where we come from, who we worship, we are all one people and we look after one another and we respect one another," the president said.
President Obama spoke to reporters in the Oval Office after he signed unrelated legislation at the White House.
A civil rights group identified him as a "frustrated neo-Nazi" who led a white supremacist band.
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"We've been tracking the suspect in the Wisconsin shooting for a little more than a decade. We know that he has traversed one of the most violent parts of the white supremacist scene, namely the racist skinhead music scene," said the Southern Poverty Law Centre's Heidi Beirich.
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Authorities said Page strode into the temple carrying a 9 millimetre handgun and multiple magazines of ammunition and opened fire without saying a word.
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Page joined the military in Milwaukee in 1992 and was a repairman for the Hawk missile system before switching jobs to become one of the army's psychological operations specialists assigned to a battalion at Fort Bragg.
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Authorities said suburban Milwaukee police had no contact with Page before Sunday's shooting, and his record gave no indication he was capable of such violence.
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"We're going to see more of this kind of violence by people who simply can't handle the changing demographics," she said, referring to the increasing percentage of non-white Americans.
The FBI is leading the investigation into the attack because the shooting was considered a possible act of domestic "terrorism".
The agency said it had no reason to believe anyone other than Page was involved.
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