Nov 16, 2022 - Politics & Policy

Man who killed 6 with SUV at Christmas parade gets life sentence

Rebecca Falconer

Memorials placed in downtown Waukesha Wisconsin left in areas where people were hit by a driver plowing into the Christmas parade on Main Street in downtown November 22, 2021 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. — Memorials placed in downtown Waukesha, Wisconsin, after six people died an SUV plowed into a Christmas parade. Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

The driver of an SUV that plowed through a Milwaukee-area Christmas parade last year, killing six people and wounding dozens of others, was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, per AP.

The big picture: Darrell Brooks Jr., 40, was sentenced in the Waukesha County Circuit court on 76 charges, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and 61 others of reckless endangerment.

Brooks' sentence does not include the possibility of parole, WTMJ-TV notes.

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