At least 1 dead, more than 20 injured after SUV drives through Waukesha Holiday Parade

[Stuart G]

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Source: cbs58.com

WAUKESHA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- There is at least one person dead and more than 20 injured after an SUV drove through the Waukesha Holiday Parade route Sunday evening. Nov. 21.

A shelter in place warning was issued by the Waukesha Police Department at approximately 7:05 p.m. Residents within a 1/2 mile from downtown are advised to wait until there's an all clear.

Cellphone video captured a red SUV speeding through the crowd, hitting pedestrians and accelerating throughout the route.

Authorities said multiple people were injured and at least one person died.

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This was just added to this story,............:The police chief and mayor just held a brief update on the casualties at the holiday parade.
At about 4:30 an SUV drove through the parade. Multiple people were injured, there is more than one death.

Read more: https://www.cbs58.com/news/breaking-waukesha-holiday-parade-evacuated-following-emergency-event-involving-gunshots-speeding-vehicle

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Note these words:...Multiple were injured, there is more than one death

If you hit the link above, there are pictures of this event...

[scipan]

1. Police press briefing at 8:30 ET

[Evolve Dammit]

2. Legal now, right WI?

[Stuart G]

3. What do you mean?

[cab67]

4. I suspect Evolve Dammit (awesome name!) is referring to...

....the fact that some states, in the wake of last year's protests, passed laws making it legal for someone to plow into a group of protestors on the road.


Did the driver mistake the parade for a protest? I don't know - nor do I know if Wisconsin passed one of these ignorant "crash into people you don't like" laws.

[onenote]

15. Wisconsin has no such law

And where such laws have been enacted they don’t apply to lawful gatherings (such as a parade for which there is a permit such as this one).

[TheRealNorth]

22. Luckily,

Governor Evers has been in charge to prevent the legalization of any of that nonsense. Not sure if the Republicans in the legislature have tried to pass any law permitting running down protestors.

[Lasher]

5. Live update here

ETA: Briefing is over

[KS Toronado]

8. Briefing starts at 48:00 minute mark

[Lasher]

10. That's true. I just wanted to point out this is no longer a live briefieng

Link to tweet

[wnylib]

6. Several online reports of this parade crash

say that shots were also fired. No one knows yet if the shots came from the SUV or were fired at it in an attempt to stop it.

An update says there are more deaths than one.

The SUV has been recovered so the driver ID is known, but no report yet on whether the driver is in custody.

WTF is going on? Attacking a Christmas parade??? What the hell for?

[Princess Turandot]

19. The police chief indicated during the briefing (in the video above) that an officer shot at the car.

..hoping to stop the vehicle. (No injuries resulted from his actions.) They now have a person of interest in custody.

The fire chief said that 12 children were among the victims transported by EMS to area hospitals.

Awful. I find myself hoping that it was a drunk, not a deliberate act.

[housecat]

21. Drunk, stoned, hallucinating -- still intentional

[Aussie105]

7. Assault with a deadly weapon?

Probably a law against that, is some states.

[BLM4ever]

9. What

Trump loving mother fuckers. Like WTF

[Sugarcoated]

11. Nobody is saying that but you

[yaesu]

12. This is the world fascists in the USA have created, THAT I have no doubt. nt

[Skittles]

18. um

you are trying WAY too hard

[orangecrush]

20. They tend to overdo it

[tclambert]

13. Let's not rush to judgment here. Maybe it was self defense.

That line seems to play well in Wisconsin courts, or so I hear.

[AverageOldGuy]

14. As of 9:45 PM EST

MSNBC is reporting unconfirmed statements that the SUV was fleeing a crime scene in another section of town, may have been a stabbing. Nothing confirmed except that police are saying there was a "previous criminal incident" involving the vehicle.

[AllyCat]

17. Oh how horrible. Have the police caught the person who did this?

I cannot watch the video at the moment

[housecat]

16. self defense! self defense!

actually tclambert said it first

[Omaha Steve]

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