Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Wade Michael Page used the Internet to become increasingly radical prior to his Aug. 5 attack at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, according to a report.
An unsealed FBI search warrant has shed new light on temple shooter Wade Michael Page's activity prior to the Aug. 5 shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. According to a Journal Sentinel report, Page used the Internet to grow increasingly radical in his white supremacist views, becoming heavily interested in conspiracy theories and videos. It's unclear from the documents exactly what he was looking at, the newspaper reported, but his girlfriend was "disturbed" by his Internet activity prior to the end of their relationship in June 2012. The FBI search warrant says the Internet "continues to serve as the primary radicalization instrument, used to recruit teenagers and young adults into the radical skinhead movement," …
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Punjab Singh was seriously wounded in the Aug. 5 shootings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin and is in a long-term facility.
A Sikh temple priest seriously wounded in the Aug. 5 shootings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin has shown signs of improvement, according to an Associated Press report. Punjab Singh was shot in the head by gunman Wade Michael Page and has been largely unresponsive ever since. However, the AP reports he has begun showing signs of awareness that his doctor calls "remarkable." His best-case scenario remains limited: he will most likely never walk, and communication will consist of deliberate eye blinks, gestures and maybe whispered words, according to the report. Singh, the last temple shooting victim released from the hospital, is in a long-term care facility. See the latest coverage of the Sikh temple shootings in Patch's special section.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Saturday's event at East Middle School focused on how each person can play a role in preventing the acts of violence seen in Newtown and the Oak Creek Sikh temple.
Those who came to Saturday's community forum ready for a fight on gun control—and judging by the NRA pamphlets distributed outside East Middle School, some were—probably went home disappointed. The forum was a departure from many of the debates happening around the country and in high levels of government following the Dec. 14 school shooting in Newtown, Ct. Five months after Oak Creek was shocked by the mass shooting at the Sikh temple, community leaders discussed how these events happen and the things any person can do to help prevent them in the future. "I wanted to make sure this wasn't a two-hour discussion about gun control, because frankly I don't think it would have been productive," Oak Creek Mayor Steve Scaffidi said. "Guns were …
Friday, December 21, 2012
A report this week in the Los Angeles Times says the FBI has no plans to release more information about Wade Michael Page or the Sikh temple shooting investigation.
A story in Wednesday's Los Angeles Times says the Milwaukee FBI office is staying quiet about Wade Michael Page, the man who killed six members of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin and wounded four others Aug. 5. The FBI's Nov. 20 announcement that it concluded its investigation shed no new light about Page or the shootings. That left many in the Sikh community "disappointed," Amardeep Kaleka told the Times. Kaleka's father, temple president Satwant Singh Kaleka, died in the attack. An FBI spokesman told the Times that Page had no clear motive and the agency did not want to speculate on why he targeted the temple that day. He declined to answer questions about whether Page had substance-abuse problems or showed signs of instability. Read the …
Monday, December 3, 2012
The Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee's annual luncheon will also feature the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The local Sikh community will be honored at a luncheon Thursday that also features the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee's annual luncheon will honor the Sikh community "for its exemplary calls for tolerance without vengeance" after white supremacist Wade Michael Page entered the Oak Creek temple Aug. 5 and killed six people and wounded four others. The event will be held at noon at the Italian Community Center. (Click here for more information) The keynote speaker is Richard Cohen, the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Cohen's group tracked Page prior to the shootings and released a report last week chronicling Page's life in the years leading up to the temple …
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The Southern Poverty Law Center says Wade Michael Page's time at Fort Bragg drove him deep into neo-Nazi ways.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that had tracked Wade Michael Page well before he opened fire at the Oak Creek Sikh temple, has released a report chronicling Page's life in the years leading up to the Aug. 5 attack. The report details Page's time at Fort Bragg, which it says "served as the home base for a brazen cadre of white supremacist soldiers." That exposure, according to the report, drove him deeper into neo-Nazi ways. After he was discharged from the Army in 1998 for refusing treatment for alcoholism, the white-power music scene "became the center of his life." In October 2011, he became a full member of the Hammerskin Nation, described in the report as one of the most violent and dominant skinhead groups in the United …
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Authorities say attack was not directed by a white supremacist group or part of ongoing threat to Sikh community.
The FBI has announced the end of its investigation into the Aug. 5 shootings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, but the questions likely won't be going away. After 300 interviews, 200 leads and more than 200 pieces of evidence, the investigation did not turn up any evidence that Wade Michael Page's attack was facilitated by a white supremacist group or that it was part of an ongoing threat to the Sikh community, officials said in a statement released Tuesday. Patch's media partners at Fox 6 reported Tuesday that Page had contact with the Sikh temple on the Thursday before the shooting, asking what the Sikh community was all about. A woman welcomed Page into the temple and even offered him something to eat, according to the report. Page came …
The Milwaukee FBI office is expected to release a statement later today.
The FBI will release a statement later today with details on its investigation into the Aug. 5 mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Public Affairs Specialist Leonard Peace said. The FBI has not commented publicly on the investigation since a press conference two days after the shooting. They said then that after more than 100 interviews and some 180 subpoenas, they still did not know exactly why Wade Michael Page entered the temple that day and began firing, killing six members and wounding four others. WTMJ-TV, which first reported the FBI's expected statement, said the agency has learned more about Page's background and how his life was falling apart prior to the shooting. Page, 40, was an Army veteran with a history of …
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
A CBS Evening News story on the Aug. 5 shootings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin includes previously-unreleased video from an Oak Creek squad car.
The CBS Evening News aired the first television interview with Oak Creek police officers Brian Murphy and Sam Lenda Tuesday night and showed newly-released footage from the Aug. 5 attack at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. The new video shows the moments after Lenda shot gunman Wade Michael Page, who had just shot six temple members and wounded four others, including Murphy. "My thought was, 'If I can't shoot him, I'm gonna run him over, but he's not leaving this parking lot and he's not getting back inside the church," Lenda said. "He was on a mission. I say, I confronted evil in the parking lot. And evil was not gonna leave there." Murphy was the first officer to arrive at the scene and was shot 12 times, with three other shots hitting his …
Monday, October 29, 2012
Lt. Brian Murphy gave his first account of the Aug. 5 Sikh temple shootings to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Monday published the first interview with Oak Creek police Lt. Brian Murphy, shot 15 times during the Aug. 5 Sikh temple attack. Murphy and Officer Sam Lenda, the second officer to respond, go into detail about the events that day and what was going through their mind as their encounter with gunman Wade Michael Page unfolded. In a separate story, the Journal Sentinel spoke with two doctors at Froedtert Hospital who worked on Murphy after he arrived. Michael Stadler, a head and neck surgeon, called the injury to Murphy's voicebox "the worst injury that I had seen." Murphy and Lenda were also scheduled to appear Monday night on the CBS Evening News (update: this interview has been delayed until at least …
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