According to investigations so far, the drive of a man who raced into a parade in the American state of Wisconsin in his SUV was a deliberate attack.
Judicial authorities on Monday brought charges of murder and other crimes against 39-year-old Darrell B.
The habitual criminal and convicted sex offender had run over and killed five visitors to the "Christmas Parade" in Waukesha near Milwaukee on Sunday with an off-road vehicle.
Another 48 visitors and participants in the pageant, including many children, were injured, some seriously, when B. broke through road barriers at high speed.
First conviction at 17
Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said the driver was said to have been on the run after a domestic argument. A police officer tried unsuccessfully to shoot him to stop him. “I saw little girls flying through the air. There were bodies everywhere, ”said visitor Sarah Saldivar to the broadcaster CBS. The victims, including members of a senior dance group, are between 52 and 81 years old. The youngest injured child celebrated their third birthday shortly before the attack.
The Milwaukee District Attorney's Office announced Monday that B. had been released on bail a few days before the crime. The thirty-nine-year-old was released for the unusually low sum of 1,000 dollars, even though he had hit the mother of his child a week earlier and deliberately hit the SUV at a gas station.
“The bail recommendation contradicts the approach of the public prosecutor to get violent crimes under control.
It also contradicts the assessment of the risk potential of the accused ”, announced the authority and announced internal investigations.
B., who appears as a rapper on social media under the name MathBoi Fly, was first convicted at the age of seventeen.
Since then, he has stood on trial for assault, gun misconduct, and other criminal offenses.
In addition, B. was convicted of a sex offender in 2006 for fathering a child with a fifteen-year-old, according to the Washoe County Sheriff's Office, Nevada.