Monday, August 6, 2012
An investigation related to the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting is underway, and details are unfolding in Cumberland County, NC.
The spokesman for the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office has posted redacted gun permits dated in 2008 for Wade Michael Page, identified by authorities as the suspect in Sunday's Wisconsin Sikh temple shootings. The five permits issued are good for five years. According to the North Carolina Rifle & Pistol Association, all handgun transfers in North Carolina require that the intended recipient obtain a Pistol Purchase Permit from his/her local Sheriff. One Pistol Purchase Permit is required per handgun at $5 apiece. When the owner takes possession of the handgun, they must present the permit to the seller, who must keep it in his or her records. It is a Class 1 misdemeanor if the transaction takes place without the permit being presented…
The gunman in Sunday's Sikh Temple shooting is a Colorado native who led a music group that has been classified as one supporting white-supremacist ideology. He was honorably discharged from the Army in 1998 after six years of service.
The 40-year-old Army veteran identified as the shooter inside an Oak Creek Sikh Temple on Sunday was a Colorado native who sang and played guitar in a band that may have had white-supremacist motives. Wade Michael Page, who was residing in a rented duplex in Cudahy, appeared in 2010 in an interview on Label56.com — which the Southern Poverty Law Center identified as being a white supremacist website. The discussion focused around his band, End Apathy. "I am originally from Colorado and had always been independent, but back in 2000 I set out to get involved and wanted to basically start over," Page said in the interview. "End Apathy began in 2005 and the concept was based on trying to figure out what it would take to actually accomplish …
The former Psychological Operations soldier was discharged from the U.S. Army in 1998.
The dead suspect identified as Wade Michael Page in Sunday's shooting at the Milwaukee-area Sikh temple is said to be a former Fort Bragg soldier. According to a Fox News report, the heavily-tattooed ex-Army soldier was one time assigned to a psychological operations unit at Fort Bragg before being discharged from the Army in 1998. Officials at Fort Bragg would not confirm Page's assignment at the psychological operations unit or time at Fort Bragg as of Monday morning. According to Fox news, Page in the U.S. Army, Page served at Fort Bliss, Texas, in the psychological operations unit in 1994, and was assigned as an E4 psychological operations specialist at Fort Bragg. He was reportedly discharged from the Army in 1998 "under honorable …
Seven people, including shooter Wade Michael Page, died Sunday morning at Oak Creek, Wisconsin, temple; veteran police officer among those injured.
Police on Monday said one gunman was responsible for the Sunday shooting that left seven people dead at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek: Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that Page was attached to the Fort Bragg base in North Carolina. He recently moved to a duplex in the 3700 block of E. Holmes Avenue in Cudahy, the newspaper reported. Three bodies were found outside the temple at 7512 S. Howell Ave. and four were inside the building. Among the deceased is the gunman, who apparently acted alone. The two officers who first arrived at the temple exchanged fire with the gunman. One officer, a 20-year veteran of the department was shot several times, according to Greenfield …
