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A jury convicted Darrell Brooks Jr. on 76 counts in the Waukesha Christmas parade attack, in which six people were killed after he drove a red Ford Escape through marchers and spectators on November 21, 2021.

At about 4:39 p.m., the SUV went around barricades onto the parade route on Main Street and traveled roughly five blocks. Those killed were Wilhelm Hospel, 81; Virginia Sorenson, 79; LeAnna Owen, 71; Tamara Durand, 52; Jane Kulich, 52; and Jackson Sparks, 8. Four were members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies. Reports put the number of injured at 61 to 62, and the charges ultimately counted 61 injured people.

Shortly before the annual parade began, Brooks met the mother of his child at a Waukesha park. According to the criminal complaint, he drove her around while punching her during an argument about why she had not posted his bail. Police received a domestic disturbance call but had not responded when he drove off minutes after she got out.

Brooks was 39 at the time and had a lengthy criminal record in Wisconsin and elsewhere, including felony convictions for substantial battery in 1999 and strangulation and suffocation in 2010. He also had a Nevada sex offense conviction with an active warrant for failing to register. In early November 2021, he had been charged in Milwaukee County with punching the mother of his child and running her over with the same red Ford Escape, which belonged to his mother but which he was living in. He was released on $1,000 cash bail two days before the parade.

Police reported that Brooks left the SUV and was found about an hour later on the porch of a nearby house, where he had asked the resident to help him call for a ride. A key to the SUV was reportedly found on him. The Waukesha Police Department interviewed him that evening at Waukesha Memorial Hospital and again the next day at the Muskego police station, where Detective Jay Carpenter questioned him. Carpenter later testified that Brooks claimed someone had driven him to Waukesha to watch a Green Bay Packers game and that he had walked to meet the mother of his child only to collect $350 from her. The detective testified that the account was untrue. When shown video of the SUV and its driver on the parade route, Brooks denied it was him, stopped cooperating and accused Carpenter of railroading him.

Brooks was initially charged on November 23, 2021, with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide. A sixth was added after Jackson Sparks died, and prosecutors added 71 more counts in January 2022, bringing the total to 77. Brooks dismissed his attorneys and represented himself at a trial that began October 3, 2022, before Waukesha County Circuit Judge Jennifer Dorow. On October 26, after about three hours and fifteen minutes of deliberation, the jury found him guilty of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide, 61 counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, six counts of hit-and-run involving death, two counts of felony bail jumping, and one count of misdemeanor battery. On November 16, 2022, he was sentenced to six consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 762 and one half years.

Brooks sought postconviction relief. After repeated extensions, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals extended his deadline to January 7, 2026, with no further extensions to be granted. In an order dated January 27, 2026, and reported the next day, the court denied another extension request. News reports said it was unclear whether that ended his appeal, and no later ruling has been publicly reported. Separately, in May 2024, he pleaded no contest to intimidating a victim in the Milwaukee County domestic case.

The video is a police interview-room recording running about 99 minutes. It shows the interview itself and opens with a short narrated introduction naming the people involved.

See also: WAUKESHA PARADE MASSACRE

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Part 2 of 2 of the recording described above.

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You can watch the entire trial on YouTube. It's absolutely wild. Your jaw will drop from the sheer audacity this man child exhibits during the entire proceedings. Hes the biggest loser on earth and his judge has the patience of a saint. I try to channel her on my bad days