FBI SWAT team among law enforcement personnel at home of suspected assailant who killed six at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek
August 6, 2012
Photos and text by Katherine Keller
A law enforcement officer rests his weapon on what appears to be a garbage or recycling bin in the alley of the 3700 block of East Holmes Avenue in Cudahy. Scores of FBI, police, fire, ambulance and other law enforcment personnel were on the scene during a the execution of a search warrant of the apartment believed to be the home of the suspect who killed six people at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek Aug. 5. The image captured in the photo above was displayed in a Chicago photographer’s camera.
—photo Katherine Keller
Members of the FBI SWAT team ride in the cherry picker of a St. Francis Fire Department vehicle.
Members of the FBI SWAT team ride in the cherry picker of a St. Francis Fire Department vehicle.
(Learn more about the FBI SWAT force here.)
A member of the FBI SWAT team ride in the cherry picker of a St. Francis Fire Department vehicle.
Teresa Carlson FBI Special Agent in Charge briefs reporters about 9:25pm Aug. 5 while a search warrant was being executed by law enforcement officials nearby in the upper floor of a duplex in the 3700 block of East Holmes Avenue in Cudahy, Wis. The second floor apartment was recently rented and occupied by the man suspected to be the assailant who killed six people at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. A backyard of nearby home in the 3600 block of East Holmes Street was where a military-issue smoke grenade and the flare launched by Kurtis Popp (and in July 2009 that landed on the roof of and set fire to the Patrick Cudahy plant, causing $50 million in damage. Joshua Popp, brother of Kurtis Popp took the flare as a souvenir while he was serving in the Marine Corps.
Photographers use powerful zoom lenses to photograph law enforcement personnel in the alley of the 3700 block of East Holmes Avenue in Cudahy, Wis.
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