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The Waukesha Police Department are thought to still be seeking video evidence from members of the public after the attack last weekend, in which six people were killed and more than 40 people injured.

A Google document, as reported by the Washington Examiner, was still open for submissions on Thursday – two days after 39-year-old Darrell Brooks was charged with five counts of homicide.

He is expected to face a sixth charge, following the death of an eight-year-old on Tuesday afternoon.

The appeal from Waukesha’s police says “In light of the tragedy that occurred November 21, 2021 during the Christmas Parade, the Waukesha Police is seeking the assistance from the public in gathering pertinent video that may have been recorded during the incident.”

“To ensure quality of the videos, we are seeking only videos or photos that you recorded and which capture the vehicle traveling through the parade or fleeing the scene.”

Darrell Brooks, the man charged with driving his SUV into a Christmas parade in Wisconsin and killing six people, had a criminal history that included cases of domestic violence.

As Kathleen N Walsh writes, if the allegations against Mr Brooks — that he had already used a vehicle to attempt to seriously injure a woman he’d been formerly in a relationship with — were considered more seriously, then perhaps five families wouldn’t be mourning the deaths of their loved ones today.

Darrell Brooks was trying to strike “as many people as possible” when he drove into marchers and spectators at a Christmas parade in Wisconsin on Sunday, authorities say.

A criminal complaint describes Mr Brooks as having “no emotion” when he allegedly smashed through a police barricadein his red Ford Escape SUV and deliberately targeted school children in marchings bands and grandparents in dance troupes, killing six people and wounding more than 60.

Moments earlier, he fled from police responding to a call about a domestic dispute between him and another person, according to a charging document filed Tuesday in the Waukesha County Circuit Court.

Read the full criminal complaint here.

The mother of the man charged with mowing down and killing people at the Wisconsin Christmas parade regrets bailing him out earlier this month, his ex-girlfriend told The New York Post.

Dawn Woods wishes she had not posted the $1,000 bond after Darrell Brooks was accused of punching the mother of his child and striking her with his car on 2 November.

“She’s wrecked that people were killed as a result and she’s like, ‘I’m blaming myself, because had I not bailed him out, this wouldn’t have happened,’” the ex, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear for her safety, told the newspaper.

Six people died when Mr Brooks allegedly plowed into the parade on Sunday, and he faces life in prison if convicted.

Five members of the Xtreme Dance Team who were injured in the Waukesha Christmas parade tragedy remained in ICU on Wednesday.

TMJ4 News reported the five members were between the 3rd and 8th grades.

Members of the dance troupe were struck when Darrell Brooks allegedly drove his SUV through the parade route, killing six people and injuring more than 60.

Darrell Brooks was trying to strike “as many people as possible” when he drove into marchers and spectators at a Christmas parade in Wisconsin on Sunday, authorities say.

A criminal complaint describes Mr Brooks as having “no emotion” when he allegedly smashed through a police barricade in his red Ford Escape SUV and deliberately targeted school children in marchings bands and grandparents in dance troupes, killing six people and wounding more than 60.

Moments earlier, he fled from police responding to a call about a domestic dispute between him and another person, according to a charging document filed Tuesday in the Waukesha County Circuit Court, writes Bevan Hurley:

More than 15 persons, mostly children, are still in hospitals following the deadly incident on Sunday.

The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin said five out of the 10 remaining children are in critical condition.

At the Aurora Medical Centre-Summit, one of the four patients is in a serious condition while three others are doing better, the hospital said. Two more persons are being treated at Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network.

Meanwhile, ProHealth Waukesha Memorial Hospital said in a statement that all patients from the parade attack admitted to the medical facility were treated and discharged on 24 November.

Organisers of Country Christmas in Pewaukee city are helping to raise funds for their neighbours attacked during Sunday’s parade.

Over the weekend, $5 from every full-price admission ticket punched at Country Christmas will go to the Waukesha Community Foundation fund.

“We had a float in the parade, and some of us were there, and all the families and all the kids that were affected. We all should just do our part,” Jesse Wilder from Ingleside Hotel told Fox6.

The Country Christmas gates open on 28 November.

The former girlfriend of the man accused of driving his car into a Christmas parade crowd near Waukesha, Wisconsin, said she was embarrassed to be the mother to his children. Graig Graziosi has more.

Officials and nurses told Children’s Wisconsin Milwaukee Hospital that they struggled to care for 18 children in the aftermath of the Waukesha car attack due to a lack of staff, Summit News reported.

One nurse who spoke anonymously to the local media said, “It was a nightmare,” adding “We just don’t have enough people and [supervisors] were frantically calling in everyone they could, but it wasn’t enough.” “We are taking care of everyone the best we can, but it’s hard,” the nurse added.

Nurses and officials at the hospital said children’s treatment is being hampered due to staff shortage brought on by the coronavirus vaccine mandate.

The hospital thanked the Waukesha community for their donations and support. “Ten patients continue to be cared for at Children’s Wisconsin who were injured at the Waukesha parade,” the hospital said in a statement

On Wednesday, the hospital said five still remain in critical condition, two in fair condition and three would return home for Thanksgiving, where they will continue their recovery.