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Brooks’ attorney “has maintained that [Brooks] couldn’t turn off the parade route Nov. 21 in downtown Waukesha because side streets were barricaded and full of spectators”

Prosecutors have added dozens of charges against a man accused of driving his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee last year.

The Milwaukee Dancing Grannies made a parade return on Saturday, two weeks after the group lost four members when an SUV plowed into the Waukesha Christmas Parade.

Homicide charges have been filed against a Wisconsin man after being accused of driving an SUV into a crowd at a Waukesha Christmas parade on Sunday, killing six people and injuring more than 60.

The suspect accused of being behind the wheel of an SUV and plowing into a crowd of people at a Wisconsin Christmas parade Sunday, killing six people and injuring more than 60, has been charged with five counts of intentional homicide in connection to the incident.

The Christmas parade crash is leading to renewed calls for giving judges more power to set bigger bails, but legal experts cautioned that one extreme case should not be reason to push for higher amounts.

The tragedy at a Christmas parade in Wisconsin has increased security concerns ahead of the Hollywood Christmas parade scheduled for this coming Sunday. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Nov. 22, 2021. 

Five people were killed Sunday night when a vehicle plowed through a crowd at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on what began as an afternoon filled with holiday cheer and quickly turned into tragedy.

The driver of an SUV that plowed into a crowd of people at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40, was in a domestic disturbance just minutes before the deadly crash, authorities said Monday.

Thomas Kluka Jr. told NBC’s “TODAY” show that his family was seated at their usual spot on the parade route when he saw the car careening through the crowd and noticed “something wasn’t right.”

A Wisconsin man was arrested and accused of driving a red SUV into a crowd at a Waukesha Christmas parade, officials said on Monday

A “person of interest” was in custody, police said, as authorities investigated whether the driver may have been involved in a knife fight or stabbing before the SUV arrived at the march.