Crime & Safety

OCPD Releases 911 Calls From Temple Shooting

Gunshots can be heard in the background of the initial calls made during the Aug. 5 shootings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.

The Oak Creek Police Department has released recordings of 911 calls made during the Aug. 5 attack at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.

Patch's media partners at Fox 6 have the recordings, which you can listen to here.

Gunshots can be heard in the background at times while dispatchers warn callers to get to a safe place.

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Dispatchers also try to get information about the shooter, later identified as Wade Michael Page. He was described in the calls as a heavy white male, bald and wearing a white shirt.

Page killed six people and injured four others, including a police officer. He was then shot by Oak Creek police before .

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The sheriff's office from the Sikh temple shootings. Video from Oak Creek squad cars could be released next week.


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