Darrell Brooks, Suspect In Waukesha Christmas Parade Tragedy, Charged With 5 Counts Of Murder

WAUKESHA, Wis., (CBS) — Darrell Brooks, 39, was charged with 5 counts of execution aft helium allegedly plowed done a Christmas parade successful Waukesha, Wisconsin, connected Sunday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 5 and injuring dozens more.

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Brooks, who has a lengthy transgression record, was taken into custody adjacent the country aft a Waukesha constabulary serviceman opened occurrence to effort to halt the vehicle, authorities said. Officially, Brooks was charged with 5 counts of intentional homicide, which is the ineligible equivalent of first-degree execution successful Wisconsin, and carries a beingness condemnation upon conviction.

In the moments earlier the incident, constabulary received a telephone of a home disturbance, perchance involving Brooks.  Police Chief Dan Thompson said constabulary didn’t adjacent person clip to respond to that telephone and afloat analyse earlier Brooks allegedly drove onto the parade route. He said this was not an enactment of terrorism.

At slightest 5 radical died and 40 were injured erstwhile the reddish Ford Escape drove into the parade way and ran implicit respective marchers, including members of a precocious schoolhouse marching band. 

Online tribunal records showed Brooks has 2 unfastened transgression cases successful Milwaukee County. And astatine slightest 3 different convictions for convulsive behavior.

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WBBM-TV learned that Brooks was charged with resisting oregon obstructing an officer, bail jumping, recklessly endangering safety, disorderly behaviour and artillery connected Nov. 5. He pleaded not blameworthy to counts 1, 4 and 5. This appears to beryllium a home unit lawsuit due to the fact that 1 of the tribunal entries says 2 women filed for a nary interaction order, which the tribunal enactment into effect. On Friday helium posted $1,000 currency bail.

The Milwaukee County District attorney’s bureau has opened an probe into specified a debased bail “in airy of the quality of the caller charges and pending charges against Mr. Brooks,’ according to a memo released Monday and obtained by CBS 58 newsman Kristen Barbaresi.

WBBM recovered records for different ongoing lawsuit from July, 2020. He was charged with 2 counts of recklessly endangering information with usage of a unsafe weapon, and possession of a firearm/convicted of felony. He pleaded not blameworthy successful this case.

• In 2011 Brooks was recovered blameworthy connected a resisting/obstructing an serviceman charge.
• In 2010, helium was recovered blameworthy connected strangulation and suffocation felony charges successful Wood County.
• In 1999, helium was recovered blameworthy connected important battery-intend bodily harm, a felony.

Thompson gave nary contiguous details astir the idiosyncratic oregon immoderate imaginable motive.

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Photos posted by CBS 58 News amusement the reddish Ford Escape parking successful a driveway successful the 300 artifact of Maple Avenue.

Photos look to amusement the reddish SUV progressive successful the Waukesha Holiday Parade incident. Follow updates here: https://t.co/sjcTvuk2Du pic.twitter.com/hfN0avE9Hp

— CBS 58 News (@CBS58) November 22, 2021