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Update [2012-08-08 14:50 by Oui]:
Gunman Wade Page Killed Himself: FBIOAK CREEK, WI (Reuters) – The gunman, Wade Page, 40, killed himself after a police officer shot him in the stomach outside the temple. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today.
I guess this slogan sums it up: “Stand and fight, don’t run.”
Gunman who opened fire in Wisconsin Sikh temple exhorted other white supremacists to act
OAK CREEK, Wis. (TIME/AP) – Wade Michael Page played in white supremacist heavy metal bands and posted frequent comments on Internet forums for skinheads, repeatedly exhorting members to act more decisively to support their cause.
“If you are wanting to meet people, get involved and become active,” he wrote last year. “Stop hiding behind the computer or making excuses.”
A day after Page strode into a Sikh temple with a 9mm handgun and multiple magazines of ammunition, authorities were trying to determine if the 40-year-old Army veteran was taking his own advice when he opened fire on total strangers in a house of worship.
Detectives cautioned they might never know for sure. But the picture of Page that began to develop Monday — found in dark corners of the Internet, in records from a dodgy Army career and throughout a life lived on the margins — suggested he was a white supremacist who wanted to see his beliefs advanced with action.
Page, who was shot to death by police, described himself as a member of the “Hammerskin Nation,” a skinhead group rooted in Texas that has branches in Australia and Canada, according to the ADL website.
2009 – Why is homeland security calling US vets ‘terrorists’?
More below the fold …
Shooting Suspect Wade Michael Page’s White-Power Past
(Daily Beast) – Wade Michael Page, the alleged gunman in Sunday’s mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisc., has been tracked by the Southern Law Poverty Center since 2000 and the Anti-Defamation League since 2010 for his involvement in white-supremacist groups, most recently the Hammerskins.
