Police lights. MWC file photo.
WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU) — Children’s Wisconsin says they are still treating seven patients who were injured in last week’s Waukesha Christmas Parade tragedy, according to a spokesperson for the hospital.
Four of those patients are said to be in serious condition and three are in good or fair condition.
The Milwaukee facility originally took in over a dozen children injured in the incident. Three patients were released between Thanksgiving and Sunday.
Sunday’s update came the same day that officials in Waukesha paused to mark one week since Darnell Brooks Jr. allegedly drove his vehicle through a barrier and speeded down the parade route, leaving six people dead and injuring more than 60 others. Mayor Shawn Reilly and city council members held a moment of silence at 4:39 p.m – the same time Brooks is said to have used his vehicle to plow through participants in the Parade.
He now faces up to six counts of homicide in the case and remains jailed on a $5 million cash bond. Officers believe he was fleeing a “domestic incident” at the time of the parade.
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