WI - Six killed, 4 injured in Sikh temple shooting, Oak Creek, 5 Aug 2012

[Kimberlyd125]

Coward

 

[Kimberlyd125]

http://lacrossetribune.com/news/sta...cle_82153143-1ca2-5471-9d79-e25487728cba.html

2 of 3 injured in temple shooting upgraded


Froedtert (FRAY'-dert) Hospital says the condition of Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy has been upgraded to satisfactory. Santokh Singh's condition is now serious, but Punjab Singh remains in critical condition.

 

[wfgodot]

The New Yorker ‏@NewYorker
Why is #OakCreek treated as a tragedy for Sikhs in America rather than a tragedy for all Americans?

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

 

[shadowraiths]

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

Thanks for posting this. I have been wondering how a tragedy of this nature could be so... ignored... by the media, whereas the aurora one grabbed, and still is, in MSM headlines.

 

[Kimberlyd125]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4868161...-shooting-victim-released-froedtert-hospital/

Sikh temple shooting victim released from Froedtert Hospital

One of the three people treated from the Sikh temple shooting at Froedtert Hospital has been released.Froedtert Hospital officials said Wednesday afternoon that Santokh Singh was released.Meanwhile, wounded officer Lt. Brian Murphy remains in satisfactory condition while Punjab Singh remains in critical condition.Lt. Murphy was shot eight or nine times during the shooting on Sunday, August 5

 

[Kimberlyd125]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...00bd52-e700-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html

Sikh temple shooting 911 tapes have audible gunfire; dispatcher utters ‘oh my god’ amid calls

 

[Kimberlyd125]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48692400

Sikh Temple member killed in robbery

Singh was a member of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. It's unclear if he was there the day of the mass shooting. Although police haven't released specifics from his murder Wednesday night, a member of the temple told Today's TMJ4 that Singh was closing the store when someone tried to rob him.

 

[i.b.nora]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/us-army-white-supremacists_n_1815137.html

U.S. Military Battling White Supremacists, Neo-Nazis In Its Own Ranks

By Daniel Trotta

"FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., Aug 21 (Reuters) - They call it "rahowa" - short for racial holy war - and they are preparing for it by joining the ranks of the world's fiercest fighting machine, the U.S. military.

White supremacists, neo-Nazis and skinhead groups encourage followers to enlist in the Army and Marine Corps to acquire the skills to overthrow what some call the ZOG - the Zionist Occupation Government. Get in, get trained and get out to brace for the coming race war.

If this scenario seems like fantasy or bluster, civil rights organizations take it as deadly serious, especially given recent events. Former U.S. Army soldier Wade Page opened fire with a 9mm handgun at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Aug. 5, murdering six people and critically wounding three before killing himself during a shootout with police.

The U.S. Defense Department as well has stepped up efforts to purge violent racists from its ranks, earning praise from organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has tracked and exposed hate groups since the 1970s.

Page, who was 40, was well known in the white supremacist music scene. In the early 2000s he told academic researcher Pete Simi that he became a neo-Nazi after joining the military in 1992. Fred Lucas, who served with him, said Page openly espoused his racist views until 1998, when he was demoted from sergeant to specialist, dis ch arged and barred from re-enlistment.

While at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, Page told Simi , he made the acquaintance of James Burmeister, a skinhead paratrooper who in 1995 killed a black Fayetteville couple in a racially motivated shooting. Burmeister was sentenced to life in prison and died in 2007.

No one knows how many white supremacists have served since then. A 2008 report commissioned by the Justice Department found half of all right-wing extremists in the United States had military experience."

Much, much more!...

 

[PHB]

The Oak Creek police officer Lt. Brian Murphy, who was shot NINE TIMES while responding to the shooting, has been released from the hospital! He is originally from Brooklyn, so this was on my local news, too.

http://www.weau.com/home/headlines/Wis-officer-wounded-in-temple-shooting-goes-home-167112405.html

 

[Gozgals]

The Oak Creek police officer Lt. Brian Murphy, who was shot NINE TIMES while responding to the shooting, has been released from the hospital! He is originally from Brooklyn, so this was on my local news, too.

http://www.weau.com/home/headlines/Wis-officer-wounded-in-temple-shooting-goes-home-167112405.html

Thanks for the update PHB.
I don't live to far from the Temple and may try to go out there this weekend if I can.

Blessings to all the victims.
Goz

 

[i.b.nora]

http://www.journaltimes.com/news/lo...11e1-9771-001a4bcf887a.html?comment_form=true

WITH VIDEO: Police release video from Sikh shooting

Story without video but with a related video.

And:

Huffington Post has the video but it doesn't play on my brand new iPad. Here it is:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/10/sikh-temple-shooting-video_n_1872488.html

 

[Kimberlyd125]

http://www.wbrz.com/news/ap-sikh-shooting-victim-slowly-improves

AP: Sikh shooting victim slowly improves

Punjab Singh is in a long-term facility. He was shot in the head in August, in an attack at a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple that left six people dead and three others injured.

His prognosis was grim but he has been improving. He can move his eyes to track movement, he tries to mouth words and he seems genuinely aware of his surroundings. His family credits prayer, love and constant companionship.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...-marks-two-years-sikh-temple-shooting-n171981

Over the past few days, hundreds of people have been gathering in Oak Creek, Wisconsin to take part in a series of events organized by youth and civic leaders to mark the second anniversary of the tragedy. I joined them to honor the memories of those who were killed, and to learn about how we can better address - and ultimately prevent – hate violence in our country.

Like communities in Aurora and Newtown, also ravaged by gun violence in 2012, the people of Oak Creek have been in a cycle of grieving and rebuilding over the past two years. But what sets this community apart is the added element of racial targeting that was at play there: a vicious combination of racial anxiety and post-9/11 animus that requires an additional and unique set of responses and interventions from all of us...

The Sikh Healing Collective was formed to address the mental health and trauma needs with resources that integrate language, cultural and faith norms, especially to assist the children who lost parents in the shooting, or witnessed unspeakable violence while hiding in the gurdwara’s basement and kitchen pantry during the massacre.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwau...kh-temple-response-b99442709z1-291446911.html

Oak Creek Police Officer Sam Lenda and retired police lieutenant Brian Murphy were among 22 recipients of the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor, with the honors handed out Wednesday during a White House ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Murphy was the first officer on the scene during the August 2012 shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. Murphy was hit with 12 bullets during the attack in which six worshipers were killed and three were wounded. Lenda drove to the site and shot and partially disabled the gunman, who then killed himself.

The award citation lauded Lenda and Murphy for their "selfless actions" that "prevented further injuries and helped save many lives."

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Mohammad Shah was at a gym in Greenfield on Aug. 5, 2012 when he checked Facebook on his phone.

The workout got his heart rate up, but the news he read dropped it into the pit of his stomach.

There was an active shooter at the Sikh Temple, 7512 S. Howell Ave., in Oak Creek.

Shah grew up as a Muslim in Milwaukee and Muskego, and he had a lot of close friends who were members there. He drove directly to the temple.

The street was shut down and police were everywhere. Nobody knew if the shooter was alive, dead or maybe holding hostages.

Shah passed out water and snacks “to keep people with some kind of nutrition to handle this really stressful moment.”

He stayed on scene for about six hours and was still there when word got around the shooter was dead.

Six people lost their lives to the shooter that day — a seventh died in 2020 from complications that came from the shooting — and four others were injured.

These two Milwaukee-area friends turned their trauma from the 2012 Sikh Temple shooting into an inspiring play

Sundeep Morrison wrote "Rag Head: An American Story." The play debuted in New York on Oct. 28 after a yearslong delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.jsonline.com