“I have been doing this for almost 40 years, and the nature of this offense is shocking,” Court Commissioner Kevin Costello said, setting the bail. There was heavy security at the courthouse. On November 23, 2021, in a Waukesha County court hearing in which Brooks sobbed and hyperventilated as some victims’ families watched silently, a court commissioner set his bail at $5 million.
Despite those things, when he was accused of trying to run a woman over at a gas station a few days before the parade tragedy, he was released on $1,000 bail.
In addition, he had an active warrant from Nevada for non-compliance as a registered sex offender for the past five years. In court during Brooks’ first appearance on November 23, 2021, the district attorney of Waukesha County, Sue Opper, revealed that Brooks also had a family violence arrest in Georgia while he was out on $500 bail in the first Milwaukee County case, which accused him of shooting toward a family member’s car after an argument. Another witness aid he felt it was a “direct intent to hit as many parade participants.” There was no attempt made by the vehicle to stop, much less slow down. It was like the SUV was trying to avoid vehicles, not people. The officer believed “this was an intentional act to strike and hurt as many people as possible…He observed the vehicle appeared to be intentionally moving side to side, striking multiple people, and bodies and objects were flying from the area of the vehicle.”Ī witness told police the SUV drove in a “zig zag motion. He could have made a right turn out of the parade route but instead began to “rapidly accelerate” into the crowd of parade participants, the complaint says. They said he was driving 25 miles an hour and “had no emotion on his face” as he accelerated. It describes how two detectives tried to stop him to no avail. Read the criminal complaint against Brooks here. He was not being chased by officers before entering the parade route, Thompson said. Thompson said Brooks was driving the red SUV that plowed into the parade participants, a scene captured in graphic videos he had been involved in a “domestic disturbance” not long before he is accused of driving into the holiday parade route and left that scene before police arrived. The 39-year-old Brooks, a felon many times over, was identified by Waukesha Police Chief Daniel Thompson at a press conference on November 22, 2021, as the suspect in the tragedy. is the registered sex offender with two open cases and an extensive criminal history who is now charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the Waukesha Christmas parade rampage Wisconsin that left 60 people injured. State of Wisconsin Department of Justice arrest reportĭarrell Brooks Jr.
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