> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://bklyner.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Temple Shooting Hero Has Kensington Family
- URL: https://bklyner.com/temple-shooting-hero-has-kensington-family-kensington/
- Published: 2012-08-07T11:56:03.000Z
- Updated: 2014-10-01T15:42:23.000Z
- Author: Ben
- Tags: #API-Imported

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ht_lt_brian_murphy_ll_120806_wg.jpg "Brian Murphy")

  
[The New York Post reports](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/temple%5Fhero%5Fbrooklyn%5Fson%5Fgm5NSrwtsB4945tHI00CqI?ref=bklyner.com#ixzz22reth4e2):

> The tough-as-nails cop who was struck by up to nine bullets while aiding shooting victims at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin is a Brooklyn-born ex-Marine known for his bravery, his proud pop told The Post yesterday.

> “That is him, believe me. He was a Marine. He goes by training. He was always a straight shooter, a very impressive kid,” retired New York City sanitation worker James Murphy, 78, said of his son, Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy…

> The gravely wounded Murphy — who did tours in India and Afghanistan — bravely waved other cops off as they came to help him, telling them to go into the temple to aid others, his dad said.

> “He took nine bullets, and he was still telling \[fellow cops\] what to do. He is a hero,” the elder Murphy said during an interview at his home on East Fifth Street in Kensington, Brooklyn.

> “If he had the opportunity, he would have taken \[the shooter\] right between the eyes!”

> The dad said his son had a typical Brooklyn boyhood in Park Slope, where the family had lived, playing pickup baseball and football with pals and his kid brother, Terrence, now 46 and a retired NYPD cop….