Driver of SUV that plowed through crowds at Waukesha Christmas parade: Amateur rapper, 39, was bailed out of jail TWO DAYS before ‘killing five and injuring 40’ in red truck
Suspected driver of red SUV driven through Christmas parade in Waukesha, WI
The ‘person of interest’ in Sunday’s SUV attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin, who is being interviewed by police is Darrell Brooks, a 39-year-old amateur rapper from Milwaukee who was bailed out of jail days before allegedly plowing through crowds at a Christmas parade, killing five people and injuring dozens more.
NBC News cites five unnamed law enforcement sources who say Brooks is in custody for the incident.
On November 5, Brooks was charged with felony bail jumping, recklessly endangering safety, battery, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer, three days earlier on November 2.
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Darrell Brooks: Waukesha Parade Massacre Suspect’s Criminal Record; Milwaukee Courts Let Him Free
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Five people died and more than 40 people were injured when an SUV sped through a barricade and into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee.
Waukesha authorities confirmed the deaths in a statement late Sunday. Police said the numbers could change as many people transported themselves to hospitals.
No names or ages of the dead were immediately released.
A person of interest was in custody but no details have been given on a possible motive.
GOPUSA Editor’s Note: At this time a suspect has not been officially named but there is a lot of information posted about a ‘suspect in custody’ at this link. Waukesha police have announced a news conference for 1:00 CT.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A joyous scene of marching bands and children dancing in Santa hats and waving pompoms turned deadly in an instant, as an SUV sped through a barricade and into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee while spectators watched in horror.
One video showed a woman screaming, “Oh my God!” repeatedly as a group of young dancers was struck Sunday. A father talked of going “from one crumpled body to the other” in search of his daughter. Members of a “Dancing Grannies” club were among those hit.
Police said “some” people died in the incident in downtown Waukesha shortly before 5 p.m., but wouldn’t say how many, citing the need to notify next of kin. At least 23 people with injuries were taken to hospitals.
A “person of interest” was in custody, Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said, but he gave no details about the person or any possible motive. The investigation was ongoing, with assistance from the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
“What took place in Waukesha today is sickening, and I have every confidence that those responsible will be brought to justice,” Attorney General Josh Kaul, the state’s top law enforcement officer, tweeted.
The horror was recorded by the city’s livestream and onlookers’ cellphones. One video shows the moment the SUV broke through the barricades and the sound of what appears to be several gunshots. Thompson said a Waukesha police officer fired his gun to try to stop the vehicle. No bystanders were injured by the gunfire, and Thompson said he did not know if the driver was struck by the officer’s bullets.
Fire Chief Steven Howard said 11 adults and 12 children were transported to hospitals by his department. It was unknown how many people were taken to hospitals by others. Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin said it received 15 patients from the parade and no reported fatalities.
One video shows a young child dancing in the street as the SUV speeds by, just a few feet from her, before it hurtles into parade participants a few hundred feet ahead. Another, of dancers with pompoms, ends with a group of people tending to a girl on the ground.
“There were pompoms and shoes and spilled hot chocolate everywhere. I had to go from one crumpled body to the other to find my daughter,” Corey Montiho, a Waukesha school district board member, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “My wife and two daughters were almost hit. Please pray for everybody. Please pray.”
The Milwaukee Dancing Grannies posted on its Facebook page that “members of the group and volunteers were impacted and we are waiting for word on their conditions.” The group’s profile describes them as a “group of grannies that meet once a week to practice routines for summer and winter parades.”
A Catholic priest, multiple parishioners and Waukesha Catholic schoolchildren were among those injured, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee spokeswoman Sandra Peterson said.
Chris Germain, co-owner of the Aspire Dance Center studio, had about 70 people in the parade ranging from as young as 2 being pulled in wagons to age 18. Germain, whose 3-year-old daughter was in the parade, said he was driving at the head of their entry when he saw a maroon SUV that “just blazed right past us.” A police officer ran past in chase. Germain said he jumped out of his own SUV and gathered the girls who were with him to safety.
Then he walked forward to see the damage.
“There were small children laying all over the road, there were police officers and EMTs doing CPR on multiple members of the parade,” he said.
Angelito Tenorio, a West Allis alderman who is running for Wisconsin state treasurer, said he was watching the parade with his family when they saw the SUV come speeding into the area.
“Then we heard a loud bang,” Tenorio said. “And after that, we just heard deafening cries and screams from the crowd, from the people at the parade. And people started rushing, running away with tears in their eyes, crying.”
The Waukesha school district canceled classes Monday and said in a notice on its website that extra counselors would be on hand for students and staff. The parade’s list of entries included cheer, dance and band entries associated with district schools.
Gov. Tony Evers said he and his wife, Kathy, were “praying for Waukesha tonight and all the kids, families, and community members affected by this senseless act.”
The parade, held each year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, is sponsored by the city’s Chamber of Commerce. This year’s, the 59th, had the theme of “comfort and joy.”
Waukesha is a western suburb of Milwaukee, and about 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Kenosha, where Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted Friday of charges stemming from the shooting of three men during unrest in that city in August 2020.
Bauer reported from Madison, Wis. Associated Press writer Doug Glass contributed from Minneapolis.
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Heartbreaking beyond words. People of all ages coming together to celebrate the Holidays with their annual parade and some agent of the Devil feels compelled to ruin it and wreak havoc and mayhem—turning a festive event into a nightmare. The meanness in this world wants to destroy everything that is enjoyable and bring hurt and fear into the lives of as many people as possible.
Prayers and condolences to all.
Another temporary victory by the secular socialists whose equal and opposite response will lead to its own destruction. Oppression, birthed of fear, anger, hate and resentment, by its very nature, creates the power that eventually crushes it in the end. The ruling days of the Leftist wingnuts is swiftly coming to an end. They would have Americans believe that secular Socialism/Communism is the next great leap forward in Homo Sapiens Darwinian scientific based evolution, from Amoeba to Mankind, from slavery and serfdom, to freedom and Democracy, but it is Not. If is just one of the many Cancers WE THE PEOPLE have had to endure in secular proffered death and destruction along mankind’s current true path and journey towards the American proud infinite. Neither Time nor Talent is on their side.
Response to ” Sonofthunder by sotheseedsofliberty2
” May you Live In Interesting Timss, ” a old Chinese Curse, ” could have been referring to the present troubled Times we live In Today when a Celebration parade Celebrating The Up Coming Christmas turned into death and injuries for many family members taking part in this Celebration. How sad that now, in these troubled times we live in that no one is safe, not even to watch a traditional Christmas Parade anymore, Sad that the world isn’t safe anymore.
TILL WE start seeing the judges, DA’s and AG’s who continually KEEP LETTING THESE REPEAT CROOKS GO FREE, to re-offend, AND CHARGE THEM AS ACCESSORIES or better yet, ACCOMPLICES to every crime done by any crook they have freed, NOTHING WILL ever change.
It apparent that as they use to say, ” we can’t let the inmates run the prison System but today the prison System, as we recently learned the Justice system Catches a Criminal and then todays justice System releases the Criminal to, as happened in Wisconsin a Person who had a Criminal record was released to run down thoses taking part in a Christmas Parade killing 5 innocent people and injuring many others that he mowed down with his car. Socil Justice, I wonder how long before ” Social justice Kicks in and the ” Social Justice System releases this Criminal so he can Kill again.
What i liked on one of fox’s commentary shows, iirc with Shannon Breen where she said “its not just the DA’s who push for bail, but the Judges, who for years who’ve been pushing the idea that [THEY know better], and can make good calls”..
WELL< IF these 2 judges involved, have MADE THIS SORT OF HAIRBRAINED CALL more than twice, it to ME, shows that "NO, they cannot make good calls"..
It was rumored that also found inside the vehicle was a BLM membership card and Democrat voter registrations under 10 different names. CNN also reported that this was just a peaceful demonstration against white supremacy originally targeted at the socially oppressive big fat white guy in a red suit sitting on the sled driven by reindeer. The Whitehouse claimed it was a natural response to the armed militia of white children violently demonstrating their pathological obsession for candy, Christmas presents and Peace on Earth and a natural social response to X-out the true meaning of Xmas or anything Christian that stands in the way of their true believer plans for American Secular Socialism. DeBlasio recommended that “Black Lives Matter” be painted across the streets where the incident occured to insure social justice was observed.
We must remember that ” This parades sole reason reason for being organized and held, was to honor and take part in a traditional Celebration , Not a parade celebrating ” Black Lives Matter” But a Parade Celebrating ” Christmas in a Nation founded on Christian Values and Morals.
How dare they. DIdn’t they know the ONLY PUBLIC ‘parades/celebrations’ now days that are allowed, are BLM RIOTS! ALl others are ‘white supremacy..’ PERIOD.
Darrell Brooks, the suspect. Guess what color he is? Brooks is not white! Hey Joe and Kamala, Brooks is a black supremacist, with a felony record.
Or just a Black Santa who only puts coal in his kids stockings at Christmas,,,,and all the rest of the year as well. Mom definitely needs to be the one to teach them how to drive.
AND what’s the betting he will be BACK OUT ON THE STREET BEFORE dinner time.
Those White Racist, Why do they alway pick on the innocent colored person just bcause they mowed women and Children down with their Car.
AND if you note, ALL Those injured/killed BY him, were white..
BUT NOT ONE MEDIA OUTLET is even THINKING of daring to call this a HATE crime.
As usually the suspect of that terror is Black -“White Supremacist”. Of cause, because the color of the skin “police” refrained from calling that massacre as act of terror. Nobody on “conservative” and “liberal” side will point to true inspirators of all terror in America: BLOODTHIRSTY CAPITALIST from Wall Street who are funding with their stolen billions BLM or Antifa groups.
YOU Can bet, had he been white, THEY WOULD ALREADY Have labeled this a hate crime…
As long as courts keep allowing easy/no bail, these situations will continue and get worse. Only GOD can help us now.
My heart goes out to all of the innocent victims of the horrific, deadly attack and their family members. Considering just how tight-lipped the authorities have been about identifying the so-called “person of interest” who is alleged to have deliberately driven the Ford Explorer into the Waukesha Christmas parade killing five individuals and injuring more than forty, I strongly suspected that the driver was either a radicalized Muslim or a Black activist. In the highly unlikely event that the driver would have been White, you can bet that he would have been named promptly by the authorities and our race-baiting Democrat politicians and their propagandists in the leftist mainstream media would have been screaming incessantly about White supremacy! Instead, all we are hearing from them is crickets as they ignore the blood of innocents that drips from their racist hands.
OF course. SINCE HE WAS BLACK, crickets is all we WILL here about who this guy is.
Here we go. another “White Supremacist” terrorizing a peaceful gathe………What’s that? Oh..Brooks is black. Never mind. That’s okay. Sooner or later we will find a real live “white supremacist” committing a felony. Just you wait. BLM and CNN are working hard on it.
TERMINATE HIM WITH EXTREME PREDJUDICE
LET THE families of his victims be the ones to pull the lever.
AND hwo the hell is it, that someone ALREADY ARRESTED And convicted for bail jumping before, IS OUT ON BAIL AFTER YET ANOTHER CRIME IS committed?!?
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
The hate filled thug did the murdering, and the Leftist media does the lying. Guess what the driving force is behind all of this hatred and murder and lying?
As a nation, we need to cry out to God in national repentance, and beg God to restore and heal our land:
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.