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Police in Oak Creek, Wis., on Monday released chilling dash-cam video taken during the effort to apprehend shooter Wade Michael Page at a local Sikh Temple on Aug. 5, after a rampage that left six worshippers dead.
The video and radio messages show that the police response was "textbook" quality, said Oak Creek police Chief John Edwards at a briefing where the videos were shown. The officers "took care of the situation very quickly, and ended it," Edwards said.
Page also died, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot after being hit by a police bullet.
The first video is taken from the squad car of Lt. Brian Murphy, who arrives two to three minutes after the first 911 call, and comes across victims in the parking lot outside the temple. By radio, he calls in the victims and says he does not see a shooter. As he heads to his car for protective gear, the shooter emerges from the temple and begins firing at him, prompting Murphy to dive behind some parked cars.
On the video, the shooter, identified as Page, begins moving one direction, and then reverses and circles around Murphy from behind.
"He moves with deliberateness" as he closes in on Murphy, Edwards said. "There’s no question in my mind that he intended to kill him."
The arrival of officer Sam Lenda minutes later, which is documented in a second dash-cam video, appears to distract the shooter, who begins walking toward Lenda’s squad car. Lenda said he saw the gunman reload or check his ammunition and then begin walking toward him.
Lenda takes cover behind his opened car door and begins shouting at Page to drop the gun. Page then begins shooting at Lenda, hitting the headrest on the car's driver's side.
He was marching in an aggressive manner," while continuing to fire, Lenda said at the briefing. After running through what he described as a "checklist" that was drilled in through years of training, Lenda returned fire.
"It was time to use deadly force," he said, "which is what I proceeded to do at that time."
Ballistics showed that Lenda’s bullet hit Page, bringing him down, said Edwards. But ballistics also suggested that the deadly shot was self-inflicted — a shot to the head that matched the 9 mm ammunition used by Page.
It was only after Page was neutralized that Lenda and other officers could attend to Murphy, who, it turned out had been shot more than a dozen times, according to Edwards.
Murphy was recently discharged from the hospital and is at home continuing his recovery.
"There’s no question in my mind that Lt. Murphy prevented the gunman from taking more lives," said Lenda.
Lenda agreed that his own arrival likely saved Murphy’s life, but added, "I’m just an officer who did my job."
Some aspects of the shooting, including Page's motive, remain under investigation.
Page was a former member of the U.S. army with close ties to neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, according to reports that emerged shortly after the shooting. One theory is that the rampage was a hate crime aimed at Sikhs, a religion practices mainly by natives of India, or intended for Muslims, who are often confused with Sikhs.
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Sep. 10, 2012 : OAK CREEK- Sikh families react to release of dashcam video in temple shooting
The dashcam video released Monday of the Sikh temple massacre is disturbing.
Annie Scholz
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/169263486.html
But for the families of the victims, it's also more information about what happened to their loved ones -- something they say is what they need the most.
Amardeep Kaleka lost his father, Satwant Singh Kaleka, in the temple shooting.
"To watch it unfold live and to know in your head what time the 9-1-1 calls were going down, I don't know how to explain it, it was really somber," explained Amardeep Kaleka to TODAY'S TMJ4.
His father was inside as another scene unfolded in the parking lot.
In video released by Oak Creek police, Lieutenant Brian Murphy gets shot as he tries to take cover. Officer Sam Lenda fires back as his own squad car gets hit.
Kaleka told TODAY'S TMJ4 that watching the video is helpful.
"I absolutely think it's difficult when you don't know, that unknown, in fact that's what started this -- the fear of the unknown," said Kaleka.
There's still information Kaleka and other families hope to get that's not in the portions of the video released.
"We wanted to know how long it took to get in, get out. Why when people walked out of the temple they were saying 'get the ambulances in there,' there's nobody in there..." said Kaleka.
Answers he hopes will come in time, and in the hopes of more video being released.
"I think when video is released, it's amazing they're allowing us to see it first, it's part of the grieving process, it's part of closing chapters and closing books on this."
Kaleka said he wants the video to shock people and make them realize there is no place for violence like this in a peaceful society.