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senseless shooting happened at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin
on August 5, 2012. Forty year old Wade Michael Page a former member
of the U.S. Army went in the Sikh temple and started shooting. When
it was all over, he had killed six people five men and one woman
ranging in age from 39 to 84. He also shot Lt. Murphy , a
51-year-old officer who was first on the scene. Lt. Murphy was
ambushed by Wade Michael Page in the parking lot. He was shot eight
to nine times at close range with a 9 mm handgun. When two other
officers arrived they exchanged gunfire with Page, killing him. The
officers found Lt. Murphy laying shot in the parking lot. Lt. Murphy
and two other shooting victims are listed in critical condition. Lt.
Murphy is expected to make a full recovery, because he was wearing a
bullet proof vest. Wade Michael Page is from Colorado. He received
basic training in Fort Sill, Okla., moved to Fort Bliss in Texas and
finished at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. A U.S. Army spokeswoman
told Yahoo News that Page served from April 1992 until October 1998
as a member of the psychological operations unit. He was never
deployed, but was awarded numerous medals, including two for good
conduct and one for humanitarian service. A psychological operations
specialist is "primarily responsible for the analysis,
development and distribution of intelligence used for information and
psychological effect," according to the U.S. Army website. If
that is the case what happened to this so called decorated soldier?
According to CNN, citing a Pentagon official, Page was discharged in
1998 for "patterns of misconduct." Of course the U.S. Army
would not confirm that. I think just maybe their covering themselves,
because they don’t want to admit they let a deeply disturbed person
loose on the streets. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center,
Page "was a frustrated neo-Nazi who had been the leader of a
racist white-power band." The band, called End Apathy, formed in
2005. According to the group's MySpace page, its music "is a sad
commentary on our sick society and the problems that prevent true
progress." If you ask me Wade Michael Page was a racist and he
could have targeted any minority group. Unfortunately it just
happened to be the Sikh community. I’m going to say it again we
need stricter gun laws in this country. All these innocent people
killed by these cowards have to stop.
LM
This is a correction Wade Michael Page was shot in the stomach by police offiers They did not kill him. He killed himself
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