Sikh Temple Shooter’s Girlfriend Arrested After Police Discover Gun in Her Home
- Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:20am by
Billy Hallowell
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Authorities are continuing to seek information about Wade Michael Page, the gunman allegedly responsible for Sunday’s Sikh temple rampage in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. In the case’s latest development, police arrested Misty Cook, Page’s former girlfriend. While it is not currently suspected that she was involved in the shooting, authorities claim they found a gun in her home.
Cook, 31, a current nursing student who is also a convicted felon, was detained on the grounds that her past legal problems prevent her from legally being able to own a firearm. In 2002, she was convicted of fleeing a traffic officer, Good Morning America reports.
“In a joint investigation with the FBI, the South Milwaukee Police Department has arrested Misty Cook on the crime of felon in possession of a firearm,” a press release from local police read. “Charges will be sought through the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office.”
A picture purportedly showing Misty Cook in an alleged Neo-Nazi group picture. Photo Credit: ABC News/ADL
While Cook has purportedly violated the law through gun ownership, there’s no doubt that authorities will also be seeking further information from her about Page. Some sources have claimed that Page and Cook’s relationship fell apart leading up to the shooting and that she may hold key facts and details that can help police reach important conclusions in the case. The two lived together until June, at which point Page moved out of their home.
Like her ex-boyfriend, Cook is said to have had interaction and relations with white supremacist groups. According to the Anti-Defamation League, she was a part of at least two neo-Nazi groups; she was apparently active in Crew 38, the women’s arm of Hammerskin Nation, a group that Page was also involved with.
On Tuesday, The Los Angeles Times reports that Cook sent a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel asking for privacy and saying that she cannot currently comment on the situation.
“If I could say something to ease the pain of the victims and their families, I would gladly do so,” the statement read. “Unfortunately, words do not begin to heal the pain they are going through.”
(H/T: Good Morning America)
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SammyStutsfruckle
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:12pmOh wow so she ran from the law and now can’t own a gun. Just another devious way around our 2nd amendment rights.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:58pmThese race supremacists are not exactly prime specimens.
Report Post »No mensa candidates? Not even a pawn among them.
Checkers anyone? …Alright, Pick-Up Sticks it is.
WeaponizedGreyMatter
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:15pmThat’s what makes them so scary. A little ideology sprinkled with hate can have terrible consequences among the knuckle draggers.
Report Post »sldjulius
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:54pmSounds like the police illegally searched her home looking for something to arrest her for, just to get her to squeal. Beautiful. And no one will dare to raise a question because her ex happens to be the bad guy. Why do we even have laws, when the law enforcers have the right to break them?!
Report Post »red_white_blue2
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:17pmAt least she made a good comment to the paper.
Report Post »SubHuman
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:26pmIf law enforcement is interested there’s another Nazi at large who has killed plenty of American citizens. Barack Obama.
Report Post »izukiddin
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:28pmShe’s a cute little Kraut.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:06pmYou really need a new monitor.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:47pmI don’t think her family tree has many branches.
Report Post »TNT75
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:37pmWhata prize she would be…NOT!
Report Post »the_system_disconnect
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:42amFelons will always have guns. Let’s arm the good guys and gals now.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:53amI’m not a huge fan of the felony equals a forfeiture of our 2nd amendment rights to be honest. I certainly think it should be limited at least to felonies where the criminal used a gun or committed a violent offense. Keep in mind the protest chill legislation is a felony. So in other words, one can be convicted of a felony for merely exercising their first amendment rights to protest and peacefully assemble, then the government can also take away that persons second amendment rights. This is not freedom.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:07pm@just
I agree. “fleeing a traffic officer” seems a bit harsh to be labeled a felony. Most of these charges are up to the officer. I was charged in college with felony “inciting a riot” because I called the police on the police beating up my roommate. My charges were dropped, but that easy I could have lost my rights also.
Report Post »rc30
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:06pmWe don’t know all the facts. Not going to judge tell all real info in on her. She ran from the cops. But no reason giving for why she ran. Am from Flint MI and see them all the time charge people with that B.S all the time. If you can’t pull over because its too busy and try to pull in a parking lot. If cop feels it took to long off to jail. I rather wait to hear all past charges before I make a choice.
Report Post »TrueSoundsOfLiberty
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:16amJust out of curiosity JustAngry, do you feel the same way about voting rights? Should a felon have the right to vote before (or if) they get a gun back?
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:36amWow, she must be brilliant. She is a fellon, no longer able to legally own a gun, her boyfriend kills a bunch of innocent people, and she isn’t smart enough to get rid of her gun… gee, you think maybe the FBI might search your home?? No?? Here’s your sign…
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:48amLet me ask you this, you think the FBI searches the houses of all the ex girlfriends of all the black murderers??
You think the FBI investigates every single tie that the community has to that black murderer??
Hell no, because only Whites are evil in their eyes. Blacks are just a product of their environment because of us evil Whites.
Report Post »antrancher
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:03pmI’m with you. Not much intelligence here. She had to know the authorities would be coming her way.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:08pmI dont see how they had a right to search her home. If the boyfriend lived their I could see it, but if not a judge shouldnt not have allowed that. Hell they probably didnt even use a judge.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:32amConspiracy.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:29amLiberal women sure are ugly.
Report Post »SnowKalBebes
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:56pmDon’t really care if you think liberal women are ugly or not, that whole comment is pointless. But if you truly believe this woman is liberal and voted for Obama then you are as delusional as the people you despise so much.
Report Post »WeaponizedGreyMatter
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:25pmSeems like someone needs a lesson on where fascism falls on the political spectrum.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:26amNow…anyone (especially white people) who ever knew the shooter or even were introduced to him in his entire life will be suspect and investigated. Why? Because he is a white separatists……can’t have that. He is a murderer but there are plenty of murderers that are not white……
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:42amThey will go after everyone he ever talked to because whites are evil.
I don’t believe that, but I know the majority of america does.
Pop culture shapes our minds even if you don’t want to admit it.
And guess what, pop culture says Black is cool, Whites are bad
So when the “just the same as us” blacks come after you and your family for being white, don’t even think about turning to any of the white power groups. To them you’re just as bad if not worse than the blacks them selves for being a race traitor.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:25amOH NO!!!
Not a gun in a woman’s home. What’s this world coming to when someone is abiding by the constitution.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:35amplease learn to read… she was a convicted felon, and no longer has the right to own a firearm…
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:36amMy first thought too when I heard the story on the news earlier this morning. Then we got the full story and it states the same above, she is a convicted felon who has lost her right to own firearms. She should have filed an application and gone through the steps to re-acquire her 2nd Amendment rights before getting a gun. It might be difficult, but it can happen.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:38amF that, all women should be able to have guns.
And let me go on record as saying Mein Ehre Heisst Treue
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