A gunman with a semiautomatic pistol attacked a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people and seriously injuring three more. The shooter, Wade Michael Page, entered the temple before a Sunday morning service and began firing on priests as others ran for cover. Police killed Page in a firefight in the parking lot,* moments after he wounded the first officer on the scene. The Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Page, a former U.S. Army psychological-operations specialist who was demoted in 1998 for being drunk on duty, had been a member of the white-supremacist band End Apathy, and that it had been tracking him since 2000, when he attempted to purchase goods from the National Alliance, a hate group. “I can’t imagine what made him do this,” said Page’s stepmother.
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A gunman with a semiautomatic pistol attacked a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people and seriously injuring three more. The shooter, Wade Michael Page, entered the temple before a Sunday morning service and began firing on priests as others ran for cover. Police killed Page in a firefight in the parking lot,* moments after he wounded the first officer on the scene. The Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Page, a former U.S. Army psychological-operations specialist who was demoted in 1998 for being drunk on duty, had been a member of the white-supremacist band End Apathy, and that it had been tracking him since 2000, when he attempted to purchase goods from the National Alliance, a hate group. “I can’t imagine what made him do this,” said Page’s stepmother.