Six Dead, 48 Injured, A Psychopathic, Criminal Terrorist With BLM

"Last night our wonderful Waukesha parade became the scene of a  horrific tragedy. Last night that parade became a nightmare." 

"[This was a] horrible and senseless [atrocity]."

"I am deeply saddened to know that so many in our community went to a parade but ended up dealing with injury and heartache."

Shawn Reilly, mayor, Waukesha, Wisconsin

"There were pom-poms and shoes and spilled hot chocolate everywhere. I had to go from one crumpled body to the other to find my daughter."

"My wife and two daughters were almost hit. Please pray for everybody. Please pray. My family is safe but many are not. I held one little girl’s head in my hand; she was seizing and she was bleeding out of her ears. I held her mother as she collapsed. Please pray."

Corey Montiho, father of dance team member hit by vehicle

"Online court records showed a person named Darrell Brooks, with a birthdate making him 39, has two open criminal cases in Milwaukee County. In one case, filed Nov. 5, he is charged with resisting or obstructing an officer, reckless homicide, disorderly conduct, bail jumping and battery. Records show $1,000 bond was posted on Friday.?

"In the other case, filed in July 2020, Brooks is charged with reckless endangering and illegal possession of a firearm. In the other case, filed in July 2020, Brooks is charged with reckless endangering and illegal possession of a firearm."    Associated Press report

Video posted online showed the vehicle as it was about to hit the parade in Waukesha   City of Waukesha/Facebook via Reuter

Relief, it was not an act of 'terrorism'. Reality: This was a terrorist act committed by an unstable criminal psychopath with a long record of violent crimes, an avid adherent of Black Lives Matter. An American citizen who was a dangerous offender and should have been imprisoned indefinitely rather than penalized with prison stays and then released. He had a roster of criminal acts in his background, did Darrell Brooks Jr.

A sex offender released from jail as recently as several days before he drove his vehicle at speed deliberately and with intent into a crowd of people celebrating the oncoming Christmas season with a traditional Christmas Parade. Waukesha, Wisconsin was the location where five people initially died, victims of vehicular homicide and another 48 were injured in this act of terrorism.

Over the past three decades this man racked up an exhaustive list of charges. He is familiar to police, and he has familiarity with the prison system. Now charged with five (six) homicides he will be incarcerated for a lifetime, somewhat too tardily. The dead included members of a local group, the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies. Eighteen children from age three to 16 were hospitalized, their injuries ranging from scrapes to broken bones and serious head injuries, with six in critical condition.

The psychopath had left the scene of a domestic dispute "minutes" earlier, a dispute that was in reality a knife fight. He drove at speed through a closed-off parade route on the town's main street Sunday, veering into people gathered for the Christmas parade, an annual event. One shot was fired at the speeding vehicle by a police officer who then refrained from firing any more in view of the crowds in the near vicinity.

As a part-time rapper appearing in a music video waving a gun, he stood in front of the same car involved in the terrorist assault, a red Ford Explorer SUV. "We are confident he acted alone. there is no evidence that this is a terrorist incident", explained Waukesha's police chief Dan Thompson, of the man facing five criminal charges, including domestic abuse and battery, released two days earlier on a $1,000 bail bond.

According to Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, the bail recommendation was "inappropriately low in light of the nature of recent charges and the pending charges" against him. Among which would have been an earlier event where he ran over a woman while she was walking through a parking lot after having followed her. The woman was hospitalized. He is also on the sex offenders register in Nevada.

A vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter, a since-deleted Facebook page showed his dislike of the verdict that set Kyle Rittenhouse free from a murder charge after killing two people at a protest that took place in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Perhaps he imagined that if a gun-rights-entitled teen could murder two protesters with an automatic weapon and be found innocent of murder, he could slaughter five (six) with an automobile and pay no penalty.

He drove his vehicle directly and at speed  into the back of a marching band and several dance groups. Small children, elderly women, a priest, all were targets. The dead: Virginia Sorenson, 79; LeAnna Owen, 71; Tamara Durand, 52; Jane Kulich, 52; and Wilhelm Hospel, 81. On Tuesday, 8-year-old Jackson Sparks also died of his injuries.

Emergency responders and passers-by attended to injured people    JESUS OCHOA/via REUTERS

"[I was marching in the parade when I heard a loud bang]. Then I heard deafening cries and screams. It was very gut-wrenching."

"People were running away, leaving their belongings behind, sobbing. When the crowd cleared out, it looked like there were people on the ground who might have been struck by the vehicle."

Angelito Tenorio, alderman, candidate for state treasurer