United States: the driver of the car having rushed into the crowd during a Christmas parade charged with 5 homicides – LCI

A frightful drama in the middle of the Christmas parade. An SUV-type vehicle crashed into a crowd gathered in Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States on Sunday. There have been “deaths”, said Police Chief Dan Thompson at a press conference, without specifying the number. According to the Twitter account of this small town, five people died and there are around 40 injured. The driver was charged on Monday with five homicides, authorities said.

“The Waukesha Christmas Parade was taking place when a red SUV knocked down the barriers on the west side and headed for Main Streeet (the main street)”, explained the police chief. “The car hit more than 20 people, some of them were children and there were injuries.”

“Waukesha police found a suspicious vehicle”, Dan Thompson added, adding that a person had been identified by authorities. Police fired at the vehicle in an attempt to stop it, the latter also said.

Angelito Tenorio, candidate for the post of State Treasurer and present at the scene, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel having seen an SUV-type vehicle driving at full speed on the road taken by the parade. “Then I heard a big shock and deafening screams from people hit by the vehicle.”

According to witnesses and footage, the SUV burst into the parade behind a group of marching school musicians. “All I heard was screaming and then people screaming their children’s names“, told CNN a witness, Angela O’Boyle, whose apartment overlooks the main street where this parade was taking place.

The incident came at the end of a turbulent week in Wisconsin where a young American, Kyle Rittenhouse, was acquitted on trial this week after he shot two men last year during riots and protests against violence. police officers in Kenosha, located approximately 80 km from Waukesha.