Suspect in Waukesha parade attack has history of domestic violence. Experts aren't surprised. [View all]
The violence starts at home. Then it spills out to the public.
The 39-year-old Milwaukee man charged in the Waukesha Christmas Parade attack, which left six people dead and more than 60 injured, had a history of domestic violence and violence against women.
Experts and advocates who help survivors of domestic abuse say it's a troubling pattern they've seen repeatedly in mass casualty events.
"Domestic violence — family violence — predicts mass shootings," said Karin Tyler, the injury and violence prevention coordinator for the city of Milwaukee's Office of Violence Prevention.
Nearly 60% of 749 mass shootings between 2014 and 2019 were either domestic violence attacks or committed by men with histories of domestic violence, a 2020 Bloomberg analysis found. A peer-reviewed academic study released earlier this year had a similar finding: About 59% of the 110 mass shootings analyzed were related to domestic violence.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/26/waukesha-parade-suspect-history-domestic-violence/8766461002/
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