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Wis. Police Release Dramatic Footage Showing Shootout With Sikh Temple Gunman

Sep. 10, 2012 9:34pm Jason Howerton

OAK CREEK, Wis. (TheBlaze/AP) — A white supremacist who killed a half-dozen people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee last month chased down the first police officer on the scene, pumping round after round into him as he lay wounded behind a parked car, video released Monday showed.

Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards played the video from Lt. Brian Murphy’s squad car before telling reporters that Murphy was shot 15 times, not nine as authorities previously said. His armored vest stopped three of the rounds, Edwards said.

Wisconsin Police Release Video Showing Shootout With Wade Michael Page at Sikh Temple

In this image taken from a Aug. 5, 2012 video from Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy's squad car camera, Lt. Murphy, the first officer on the scene, exchanges fire in the temple parking lot with shooter Wade Michael Page, rear right, as Page emerges from the temple. The video shows Murphy rolling behind a parked car for cover and Page chasing him down, firing multiple shots at him. Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm says Murphy was hit 15 times. Page killed himself following a firefight with Officer Sam Lenda. (Credit: AP)

Murphy was shot while tending to two victims of Wade Michael Page’s Aug. 5 rampage at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran, opened fire with a 9 mm pistol shortly before Sunday services were to begin. He killed six worshippers and wounded four others, including Murphy, before killing himself.

Page’s motive in the shooting spree remains unclear. The FBI is investigating, but U.S. Attorney James Santelle said it could be weeks or months before the agency releases any conclusions.

The squad car video shows a second officer arriving seconds after Page chased down Murphy. Officer Sam Lenda and Page exchange fire, and then Page, barely discernible in the distance, takes a round in the stomach and topples over. A final shot rings out as Page shoots himself in the head.

In this handout provided by the Oak Creek Police Department, Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy who was shot mulitple times by suspect Wade Michael Page at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Wisconsin poses for a photograph on an unspecifed date and location. (Credit: Getty Images)

“Our police officers handled themselves in a professional and heroic manner,” Oak Creek Mayor Steve Scaffidi said at the news conference where the footage was released. “Their actions probably saved lives.”

Police released about one minute of footage from Murphy’s squad car and about three minutes from Lenda’s in response to an open records request from The Associated Press and others.

Murphy’s dashboard-mounted camera shows him speeding to the temple and pulling into the sun-splashed parking lot. He stops in front of two victims, whose bodies were obscured before the video was released. Murphy can be seen on the edge of the screen with his .45-caliber pistol drawn, speaking into his radio.

Edwards told reporters Murphy reported he couldn’t see the shooter, had discovered victims and needed an ambulance.

The video then shows Page, dressed in a white shirt and black pants, bursting out of the temple. Murphy spots him and raises his gun. Page runs out of the frame and Murphy rolls for cover behind a parked car, disappearing from view. Page then jogs back into the frame and walks quickly toward Murphy, shooting out the back windshield of a nearby car before moving off-screen again.

Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm said Murphy was hit in the cheek as he rolled for cover and the bullet entered his throat. He tried to raise his gun again, but Page shot him in the thumb, knocking the weapon away. Then Page closed in on Murphy, firing from about 10 feet away, Chisholm said. Murphy told investigators he remembered wondering when Page would run out of ammunition.

“There’s a deliberateness about him,” Chisholm said of Page. “He intended to kill him.”

Murphy did not attend the news conference. He was released from a hospital Aug. 22 and is recovering at home. Edwards said previously that Murphy can speak only in a whisper after being hit in the throat.

The video from Lenda’s squad car shows him arriving about 10 seconds after Murphy was shot, bouncing over a median and into the temple’s driveway. Page sees Lenda’s vehicle and starts walking toward him.

Lenda, a police firearms instructor, throws the car into reverse and then moves forward again before stopping about 60 yards from Page. Lenda said he got out of the squad and hid behind the door with his AR-15 rifle.

Lenda can be heard in the video yelling several times at Page to drop his gun. Page fires and a portion of Lenda’s windshield over the steering wheel explodes. Lenda fires six times at Page, who starts walking to his left and then abruptly falls over. A final shot can be heard at the end of the video as Lenda shouts at other officers, asking if they can see Page and if he’s crawling.

“He had to be stopped and that’s why I decided to shoot,” Lenda said Monday. “I’m just an officer who did my job.”

Watch the raw dash cam video here (WARNING! Contains graphic content):

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Comments (31)

Case_Logic
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 12:40am
Why oh why are police, security and/or bank videos always at such crapy quality????

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go2gym
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:47pm
Graphic content?????????????????? WHERE?

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- db321
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:16pm
  What’s up with the second car – looks like he got training from Columbine Swat that sat outside the school for 4 hours while KIDS Died in side. Officer down! – go help or get a job at Walmart.
  
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SteamedinMichigan
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:06pm
I am utterly shocked and still trembling from the video…….

Almost too much to experience – it really should be divided up – can any one person stand viewing the entire video in one sitting?

The mind boggles

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- SteamedinMichigan
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:22pm
  Whew………..
  
  I watched the video again……
  
  Almost …..too…..much…….to…….process
  
  This video should be banned….it’s just too – too – …… – too much…………..
  
  That’s 3 minutes of my life I will never get back…….
  
  The Blaze – I come here daily to see your stories. You’ve had a great track record. Consider this article, this fake hype, this patronizing teaser as a large, bold “X” in the NEGATIVE column. This is truly beneath you. I have come to expect, experience and anticipate far more from you.
  
  Let’s put this behind you and move on……….
  
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- SteamedinMichigan
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:38pm
  WARNING!
  
  Video of paint drying…
  
  ***GRAPHIC***
  
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MaverickCoast
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:38pm
Graphic? Could someone please wake me up after the video is over.

The Blaze is getting as bad MISREPRESENTING reality!

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doodoo
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:45pm
graphic…ive seen much more than this on Andy of mayberry…

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Slowman101
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:25am
I was expecting more. But I did get another pop-up from Glenn trying to sell me something.

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- SquareHead
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:10pm
  This is just so that the authorities can say that they released the video. There has been many questions as to why the video cameras on the property was not released. Also the eyewitnesses that saw four gunmen!
  
  This is a Government job to insight fear, and come up with reasons to remove guns from sivilians.
  
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- right-wing-waco
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:26pm
  I expected more too, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last week.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:09am
  SquareHead
  
  This is a Government job to insight fear, and come up with reasons to remove guns from sivilians.
  ***
  incite not insight
  civilians not sivilians
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  “This is just so that the authorities can say that they released the video. ”
  That I can believe.
  
  “There has been many questions as to why the video cameras on the property was not released. Also the eyewitnesses that saw four gunmen! ”
  
  So after an incident, have the local security person (civilian at the Sikh Temple in this case) upload the video to the crowd while make copies & encrypting &renaming some to hide them form authorities. That way authorities cannot selectively tell a partial truth.
  
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schroeder123
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:54am
You can get paid the big bucks too.

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teddrunk
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:12am
Congrats to the O.C.P.D. on this one. Great job that day. My suburban Milwaukee Co. P.D. is becoming famous too. For being union thugs and dirty cops in league with Mexican drug gangs.

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John 3:16
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:37am
These cheezie videos should have been left out so as not waste the readers time. If I hadn’t wasted time on the video I may have read the article.

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- dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:30am
  sounds like a personal problem to me.
  
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tljjjjcline
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:22am
Why do you people put out so many non event videos. There is absolutely nothing to see here

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- dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:29am
  after the windshield is shot and you see a big plume the officer returns fire. you can see the guy running around then fall over. it’s all in the distance and hard to see but it’s there. if you want to see a big shootout scene rent a movie.
  
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MrKnowItAll
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:15pm
Why don’t they Ever shoot the Gun. They always shoot the guy with it. Everybody knows from watching MSNBC it’s the guns fault.

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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:38pm
  Right wingers, he looks like your kid.
- Virgil_Lance
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:33am
  They do! Despite training to aim at the “center of mass”, most people in a gun fight end up shooting at the gun that’s pointed at them; it’s a natural instinct to focus attention at that point, and the hand follows the eye.
  
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:02pm
see this story too: Supporting the 2nd Amendment is a mental disorder says conneced physicins by Susane Posel at http://www.gulagbound.com

Dr. Stephen Hargarten of the Researdh Center at the Medical College of WI. He supports the limiting of access to ALL firearms in his advocacy with the Firearms Injury Center which is FUNDED by a US Government GRANT to lobby taxpayers into believing that removing the 2nd Amendment will stop gun violence! With the classification of gun support as a mental disorder, more control could be placed on who ultimately can own a gun……………….READ THIS WHOLE ARTICLE THERE IS MORE

Including: Daniel Webster, who would like to see Obamacare have ultimate control of the classification of mental states ….. OH NO> Soon we will have no Constitutional Rights at all.

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- Despiser25
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:54pm
  Liberalism is a dangerous Mental Disorder. Thanks for pointing it out to us, again.
  
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Jenny Lind
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 9:59pm
God bless all the officers who “just di their job”.

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drs1969
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 9:59pm
When I first heard this story, I wondered if the guy had been in Phsy-Ops. Well, he was, at Ft. Bragg. Just like many CIA spys are former Marines from poor families, like Oswald.

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- apollo18
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:51am
  When you refer to Oswald, HE is the true EX-Marine! One of two ex-Marines. Other being John Murtha. (D-PA).
  
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v15
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 9:58pm
I watched the first video twice and the second video once and I didn’t see that “graphic content” you were talking about. And what’s worse, this is the Police Dashcam “Raw” Director’s Cut. This dashcam video is rated G.

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- Polarized America
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:10pm
  it now says ‘ DRAMATIC FOOTAGE ‘.. i saw a cop car going really fast, and two people running, wow i’ll have to keep it away from my grand kids ;-O
  
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- v15
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:37pm
  @Polarized hahhahaa classic! We can’t kids watching cars speed or people running around – they might get ideas. haha
  
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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:19pm
  Howerton strikes again. MORE LAME WORTHLESS FOOTAGE OF NOTHING. Howerton, you are an idiot.
  
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- Tankertony
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:59am
  You cry wolf too many times and I stopped believing you.
  There’s absolutely nothing graphic in the video. There will never be anything ‘graphic’ shown.
  
  I did like the single, little puffy white cloud above it all.
  
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