The man convicted of killing six people and injuring dozens of others when he drove into a Wisconsin Christmas parade last year has been sentenced to six consecutive life sentences with no possibility of early release.
of killing six people and injuring dozens of others when he drove into a Wisconsin Christmas parade last year, was sentenced Wednesday to six consecutive life sentences with no possibility of early release.. Six of the counts were first-degree intentional homicide."The seriousness of the offense can be summed up frankly in one word: and that is ‘attack,'" Judge Jennifer Dorow said.
The youngest person who died, 8-year-old Jackson Sparks, was struck with his older brother as they walked in the parade with their baseball teammates, their mother said. Both boys were hospitalized, and Jackson died“Do you have any idea how gut-wrenching it is to have to explain to your 12-year-old son that his little brother isn’t going to make it?” Sheri Sparks told Brooks in court Tuesday. She said life will never be the same.
Dorow said the images of the crash “kept me up at night” and she repeatedly described the events as “horrific.” She said that the only time “we heard about brake lights was when Jane Kulich was on that vehicle, and he braked so he could get her off the top and run her over.” A Waukesha County jury on Oct. 26 convicted Brooks of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide, 61 counts of reckless endangerment, six counts of hit-and-run causing death, two counts of bail jumping and one count of misdemeanor battery.
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