“His music, Wade M. Page once said, was about ‘how the value of human life has been degraded by tyranny,' Erica Goode and Serge F. Kovaleski wrote of the music by the suspect of the Wisconsin shooting.
But on Sunday, Mr. Page, “an Army veteran and a rock singer whose bands specialized in the lyrics of hate, coldly took the lives of six people and wounded three others,†with a 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun in a Sikh temple, Ms. Goode and Mr. Kovaleski wrote.
Mr. Page, 40, had long been on the radar of organizations monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center “because of his ties to the white supremacist movement and his role as the leader of a white-power band called End Apathy,†they wrote.
Oak Creek's police chief, John Edwards, speaking at the news conference, identified the five men and one woman who died at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin: Sita Sin gh, 41; Ranjit Singh, 49; Prakash Singh, 39; Paramjit Kaur, 41; Suveg Singh, 84; and Satwant Singh Kaleka, 65, who was the center's president.
Peter Hoyt, 53, a neighbor of Mr. Page's in Cudahy who often stopped to chat with him during morning walks, said he was “stunned†that the man he had known could have done something so violent. Mr. Page, he said, told him that he had broken up with a girlfriend in early June.
“He didn't seem like he was visibly upset,†Mr. Hoyt said about the breakup. “He didn't seem angry. He seemed more emotionally upset. He wasn't mad. He was hurt.â€
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