Those killed by the multiple run over during a Christmas parade in Waukesha, in the US state of Wisconsin, have risen to six when adding the death of a child. In addition, there are a total of 62 injured, of which 18 are children.
This was reported by the district attorney during the first appearance of the defendant for the event, Darrell Brooks, 39. Brooks was stopped by police last Sunday, shortly after ramming a red SUV into the crowd gathered for a Waukesha Christmas parade. The Police ruled out on Monday that it was an attack, but the motivations for the event are not yet clear. The authorities only detailed that the detainee had been involved before the accident in a “domestic altercation” from which he fled.
The Prosecutor’s Office charged Brooks with five counts of intentional homicide in the first degree, and announced that it will soon add one more, after the death of the minor, a crime that is sentenced in Wisconsin to life imprisonment.
At some point in the session, Brooks burst into tears when prosecutors described the events that occurred Sunday. During the hearing, the court commissioner, Kevin Costello, an assistant judge, set bail of $ 5 million, which he described as “extraordinarily high, although it is an extraordinary case.”
This Tuesday it was announced that Brooks was free on bail after hitting a woman with his car earlier this month. According to court documents, he was jailed and released after paying $ 1,000 bail, after running over at a gas station last day 2 a woman who claimed that she was the mother of his son.
The Milwaukee county district attorney’s office regretted in a statement Tuesday that he was granted bail in the woman’s hit-and-run case and deemed it “inappropriate.” Brooks has been in and out of jail for the past twenty years and has criminal records in Wisconsin, Nevada, and Georgia.
According to the CNN chain, listed in Nevada criminal records as a sex offender, where in November 2006 he pleaded guilty to having had sex with a minor below the age of consent established in this state, which is 16 years old.
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