{"id":23466,"date":"2012-08-08T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T09:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=23466"},"modified":"2012-08-08T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T09:40:11","slug":"moment-us-gunman-shot-policeman-us-sikh-attack-23466","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/moment-us-gunman-shot-policeman-us-sikh-attack-23466\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment US Gunman Shot Policeman \/ US Sikh Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An audio recording of the moment a police officer was shot multiple times by a suspected white supremacist has been released by US authorities.<\/h1>\n

Lieutenant Brian Murphy was the first officer on the scene of a gun attack at a Sikh place of worship in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.\u00a0Former US Army soldier Wade Michael Page opened fire with a 9mm handgun as dozens of people prepared for Sunday morning services.<\/p>\n

Six people were killed and three critically wounded in the attack – including Lt Murphy as he went to the aid of one of the victims.\u00a0After arriving at the scene, he told the dispatcher: “I need an ambulance. I do not see a shooter anywhere…<\/p>\n

“I have someone walking out the driveway towards me. Man with a gun, white t-shirt.”<\/p>\n

Moments later, gun shots can be heard on the recording, followed by silence.<\/p>\n

The gunman was shot dead by a second officer as further support arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n

The dispatcher said: “Subject with a gun, balding, white t-shirt. Officer down.”<\/p>\n

Lt Murphy was shot eight times and remains in a critical condition in Froedtert Hospital trauma centre.<\/p>\n

Page, 40, was a failed soldier who played in white supremacist heavy metal bands with names such as Definite Hate and End Apathy.<\/p>\n

He was a former US Army psychological operations specialist who served between April 1992 and October 1998, before he was discharged at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for “patterns of misconduct”.<\/p>\n

The Southern Poverty Law Centre, a non-profit civil rights organisation, described him as a “frustrated neo-Nazi”.<\/p>\n

He wrote frequently on white supremacist websites, describing himself as a member of the “Hammerskins Nation” – a skinhead group rooted in Texas that has offshoots in Australia and Canada, according to the Maryland based intelligence firm SITE.<\/p>\n

As a “psy-ops” specialist, Page would have trained to host public meetings between locals and American forces, use leaflet campaigns in a conflict zone or use loudspeakers to communicate with enemy soldiers.<\/p>\n

He never deployed overseas in that role, Army spokesman George Wright said.<\/p>\n

Special Agent Teresa Carlson, head of the FBI’s Milwaukee field office, said Page was the subject of a “domestic terrorism” probe.<\/p>\n

He said: “We are looking at ties to white supremacist groups. We did not have an investigation on him before yesterday.<\/p>\n

“No law enforcement agency had any reason to believe he was plotting anything.”<\/p>\n

Online records show Page had a brief criminal history in other states, including pleading guilty to misdemeanour criminal mischief after a 1994 arrest in El Paso, Texas. He received six months’ probation.<\/p>\n

Page also pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in Colorado in 1999 but never completed a sentence that included alcohol treatment, records show.<\/p>\n

He was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving again in 2010 in North Carolina after running his car off the side of a highway. The case was dropped a year later for lack of evidence, according to court records.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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