Boy, 8, named as latest victim of deadly Wisconsin Christmas parade crash

Additional charges relating to the sixth death and the more than 60 people injured will be coming later this week or next, said Waukesha County District Attorney Susan Opper
Boy, 8, named as latest victim of deadly Wisconsin Christmas parade crash

Prosecutors in Wisconsin have charged Darrell Brooks with intentional homicide in the deaths of at least five people who were killed when an SUV was driven into a Christmas parade. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel/AP, Pool)

An eight-year-old boy has become the sixth person to die as a result of a man driving his SUV into a Christmas parade in Wisconsin.

Darrell Brooks Junior has been charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide, a charge that carries a mandatory life sentence if convicted.

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