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Sikh Temple Shooting Suspect IDed

...as Wade Michael Page

By Kate Seamons,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 6, 2012 7:13 AM CDT | Updated Aug 6, 2012 8:54 AM CDT

(Newser) – The man suspected of killing six at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin yesterday before being shot dead by a cop has been identified as Wade Michael Page, sources tell Fox News. And more details on Page are trickling in, by way of NBC and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

  • The 40-year-old was an Army vet with ties to Fort Bragg in North Carolina; he reportedly served from April 1992 through October 1998.

  • While in the Army, he was assigned to psychological operations.
  • According to military sources, he was discharged for "patterns of misconduct."
  • He had previously lived in Colorado as well as North Carolina, before moving to Wisconsin.
  • The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that Page was the former frontman of neo-Nazi music group End Apathy.
  • Police say the gun he used in the shooting was bought sometime in the last 10 days, in Wisconsin. It was reportedly a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, and police have recovered it.

A police K-9 unit, left, and a robot, center, are outside the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis., where a shooting took place Sunday, Aug 5, 2012.
A police K-9 unit, left, and a robot, center, are outside the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis., where a shooting took place Sunday, Aug 5, 2012.   (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Women react outside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Wis., after a shooting Sunday, Aug 5, 2012.
Women react outside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Wis., after a shooting Sunday, Aug 5, 2012.   (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
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COMMENTS
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Bartmaeus
Aug 6, 2012 1:49 PM CDT
The sheeple believe the script about the lone gunman again, despite several eyewitness accounts of four men. The sheeple believe what they feel is a more convenient truth from a partisan political perspective.
aghast
Aug 6, 2012 1:15 PM CDT
to "Illegal..."  They're not Arabs, or Moslems idiot.  They're from India, and they are Sihks.  Learn who you're hating...or just hate everyone who isn't an ignorant ass like you.
JackNelsonSteward
Aug 6, 2012 12:54 PM CDT
Military training is very, very effective.  Get a look at what you can be trained to do in the military.  In fact this is WHAT the military trains people to do:  kill as many people as possible as efficiently and as quickly as possible. Don't be all up in here squealin' about it either. That's exACTly what military training SHOULD DO. So we have millions of us who are trained to do this.  They have, in the real-world, hands on, day-by-day, DONE this.  It has been their job, if called upon to do so, and they have. These are just facts to consider. 

 
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