The man accused of driving his SUV via a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing six folks and injuring dozens, mentioned Wednesday that he seems like he’s being “demonized.”
Darrell Brooks Jr., in an interview with Fox News from the Waukesha County Jail, provided no particulars a couple of potential motive.
“I just feel like I’m being monster — demonized,” Brooks mentioned, in line with the Fox report.
According to a legal criticism, Brooks drove his SUV into the parade in Waukesha on Nov. 21. Witnesses mentioned he was swerving and gave the impression to be deliberately making an attempt to hit folks. He was arrested minutes later as he stood on the porch of a close-by home asking the home-owner to assist him name a journey.
Police mentioned he had fled the scene of a home disturbance when he became the parade, though officers weren’t pursuing him on the time. He’s been charged with six counts of first-degree intentional murder.
Brooks’ mom Dawn Woods, launched a letter Wednesday providing the household’s condolences to the victims.
She mentioned her son has lengthy suffered from psychological well being points and after he turned an grownup he lacked the insurance coverage and funds to proceed his medicine and counseling, main him to commit crimes.
“Mental illness is real and the system is broken it can and must be fixed NOW, not next year or with a new legislation NOW. So many like Darrell that have fallen through the cracks because of a broken system that no one cared to address, can get the help they so desperately need,” Woods wrote within the letter, first obtained by WDJT-TV.
At the time of the crash, Brooks was out on $1,000 bail in a Milwaukee County case by which he’s accused of deliberately placing a girl together with his automotive. He was charged in that case on Nov. 5.
He’s additionally a defendant in one other Milwaukee County case from 2020 by which he’s charged with capturing at his nephew and one other individual.
