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Police were able to arrest the suspected driver nearby. He is being prosecuted for five counts of murder. The dead ranged in age from 52 to 81. Police said 48 people were injured, including two children.
While Brooks was en route in his vehicle, he was not chased by the police. The man has an extensive criminal record, according to American media, with a recent charge of assault, domestic violence and reckless behavior. He was allowed to go home after paying a $1,000 bail, but with a ban on carrying weapons.
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A car crashed into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday. The incident happened around 4:39 p.m. local time. The vehicle drove through a roadblock. “The SUV came at full speed,” said a 39-year-old witness who watched the parade with her family from the sidewalk. “Then I heard people screaming.” The woman and her 3-year-old daughter sought refuge in a restaurant while her husband tried to help the injured.
A video posted to social media shows a red SUV driving into the parade from behind. In a second video, the police appear to open fire on the same car as it breaks through the roadblock. A police spokesman confirmed that an officer shot at the car. No bystanders were reported to have been injured. According to the police, no shots were fired from the car itself.
Panic
Panic broke out during the incident, according to American media. People were shouting the names of relatives. Video footage shows a woman screaming “my god” after a group of dancing girls in Santa hats are hit by the car.
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View the first images of the attack with the SUV on the Christmas procession here. Text continues below the video.
Children, seniors and priest injured
Eyewitnesses spoke of dozens of people lying on the ground. Emergency services arrived en masse.
“There were pompoms, shoes, and hot chocolate everywhere,” Corey Montiho, a board member at a nearby Waukesha school, told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. I had to go through one body to another to find my daughter. My wife and two daughters were nearly hit. “My family is safe, but many are not. I held a little girl’s head in my hand, she had a seizure and she was bleeding from her ears. I held her mother as she collapsed. Please pray for everyone. Please pray.”
Several schoolchildren are said to have been injured, Fox News reports. And according to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, one of those injured is a Catholic priest, as well as “Catholic schoolchildren from Waukesha” and “several parishioners.”
According to an eyewitness, the driver drove an SUV over a number of elderly women who were part of the group The Dancing Grannies and who took part in the annual parade in the city. According to other witnesses, at least four women from this group were hit by the car, New York Post reports.
Brayden Kowalski, 19, attended the parade with his family and said he “saw bodies flying everywhere.” “He just blew through people, hit a lot of people, bodies flew everywhere,” Kowalski told Fox News. “These people were not run over, they were thrown through the air. Many people were thrown into the air. “There were a lot of people with broken limbs, a lot of people were screaming. It was horrible.”
The White House
The White House said President Joe Biden had been briefed on the events in Waukesha. “The White House is closely monitoring the situation. We sympathize with everyone affected by this terrible incident,” said a government official. He also said that the local authorities have been offered help.
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