First Lady Will Meet Privately With Temple Shooting Victims' Families

First Lady Michelle Obama will meet privately with Sikh temple shooting victims' families Thursday afternoon, according to the White House.

Obama will be in Oak Creek following a campaign event in Milwaukee. She will meet with immeidate family members of those killed and injured in the Aug. 5 attacks, the White House said Monday. The meeting will be closed to the media.

It was a little more than two weeks ago that Wade Michael Page opened fire in the Oak Creek gurdwara, killing six members and wounding four others, including a police officer.

In the days following the shootings, some members of the Sikh community called on the president to meet with victims' families, as he did after the Aurora, Colorado murders.

Tejpreet Kaur, a Sikh Coalition community organizer, called the first lady's visit a "necessary step." Victims and their families needed to have the events of Aug. 5 and the loss of family members "recognized at this level," she said. 

"I think it's great the first lady is coming to pay her respects," Kaur said. "It's such a large atrocity that happened and I think (visiting with families) is something that needed to be done by either the first lady or the president."

Check back on Oak Creek Patch for more reaction to the first lady's visit.