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By: EFE
Wednesday, November 6
Another child dies and the dead and 65 injured in the hit-and-run in Wisconsin rise to 6
WASHINGTON – The number of victims by the hit on Sunday during a Christmas parade in Waukesha , in the state of Wisconsin , has risen to six dead and 62 injured
The death toll has risen after the death of a child who had suffered injuries, the district attorney reported. Waukesha County Sheriff Susan Opper during the first appearance of the suspect, Darrell Brooks , who appeared in court in that Milwaukee suburb on Tuesday.
Brooks was arrested by the police on Sunday shortly after ramming a red SUV into the crowd gathered for a Christmas parade in Waukesha.
The Police ruled out on Monday that it was an attack, but the motivations for the event are not yet clear. The authorities only detailed that the detainee had been involved before the hit in a “domestic altercation” from which he fled .
The Prosecutor’s Office charged Brooks with five counts of intentional murder in the first degree, and he announced that he will soon add one more , after the death of the minor; This type of crime is punishable in Wisconsin with life imprisonment.
At some point in the session Brooks burst into tears when the prosecutors described the events that occurred Sunday.
During the hearing, the commissioner of the court, Kevin Costello, assistant judge, set a bond of $ 5 million dollars, which he described as “extraordinarily high, although it is an extraordinary case.”
This Tuesday it was announced that Brooks was out on bail after hitting a woman with his car earlier this month.
According to court documents, he was jailed and released after paying $ 1, 000 bail dollars, after being hit at a gas station in the past day 2 to a woman who claimed she was the mother of her child.
The office of the Milwaukee County District Attorney on Tuesday regretted in a statement that he was granted bail in the case of hitting the woman and considered it “inappropriate.”
Brooks has been in and out of jail for the past twenty years and has a criminal record in Wisconsin, Nevada, and Georgia.
According to CNN, Brooks appears in Nevada criminal records as a sex offender, and in November of 2006 pleaded guilty to having had sex with a minor under the age of consent established in this state, which are the 16 years.
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