nate suspect in waukesha county standoff 2 days ago

5, he is charged with resisting or obstructing an officer, reckless endangering, disorderly conduct, bail jumping and battery. Brooks was not injured.īrooks has two open criminal cases in Milwaukee County. The chief said that while police were not pursuing Brooks before he entered the parade route, an officer did fire a shot to try to stop him but ceased firing because of the danger to others. “It took a second to register, like, ‘Is that what we really just saw?’ And then you looked in the road and there were just people laying in road.”Īt least nine patients - most of them children - were listed in critical condition Monday at two hospitals, and seven others were reported in serious condition. “It looked like dummies being thrown in the air,” said Nicole Schneiter, who was there with her children and grandchildren. Mayor Shawn Reilly described the event as a “Norman Rockwell-type of Christmas parade” that “became a nightmare.” The police chief identified the dead as four women ages 52 to 79 and an 81-year-old man. Members of a “Dancing Grannies” club were among those killed, as was a bank employee. He has been charged with crimes 16 times since 1999 and had two outstanding cases against him at the time of the parade disaster - including one in which he was accused of deliberately running down a woman with his vehicle.Ī joyous scene of marching bands and children dancing in Santa hats and waving pompoms gave way in an instant Sunday to screams and the sight of crumpled bodies as the SUV sped through barricades and struck dancers, musicians and others in the community of 72,000 people. Police were drawing up five charges of intentional homicide against Brooks, 39, of Milwaukee, Thompson said. Brooks acted alone, the chief said.īrooks had left the scene of the domestic disturbance before officers arrived, and he was not being chased by police at the time of the crash, according to the chief. Police Chief Dan Thompson said that there was no evidence the bloodshed on Sunday was a terrorist attack or that the suspect, Darrell Brooks Jr., knew anyone in the parade. The SUV driver who plowed into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing at least five people and injuring 48, was leaving the scene of a domestic dispute that had taken place just minutes earlier, Waukesha, Wisconsin’s police chief said Monday (Nov.

Nate suspect in waukesha county standoff 2 days ago