{"id":1741685,"date":"2022-11-16T21:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T02:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741685"},"modified":"2022-11-16T21:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T02:02:50","slug":"waukesha-christmas-parade-killer-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-without-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/waukesha-christmas-parade-killer-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-without-parole\/","title":{"rendered":"Waukesha Christmas Parade Killer Sentenced To Life In Prison Without Parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwaukesha-christmas-parade-killer-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-without-parole%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741685&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A judge sentenced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/waukesha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waukesha<\/a> Christmas killer to life in prison without parole Wednesday for killing six people and injuring dozens more after he drove his SUV into a crowd at the Waukesha Christmas parade in the Wisconsin suburb last year.<\/p>\n<p>Waukesha County Circuit Judge Jennifer Dorow sentenced the 40-year-old man, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy, on 76 charges, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and 61 counts of reckless endangerment, with each homicide count carrying a mandatory life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The six victims were identified as Jackson Sparks, 8; Tamara Durand, 52; Jane Kulich, 52; LeAnna Owen, 71; Virginia Sorenson, 79; and Wilhelm Hospel, 81.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have absolutely no remorse for anything that you do,\u201d Dorrow said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wisconsin-milwaukee-homicide-sentencing-treatment-of-prisoners-4b7164afac40dda0acad30a19e3b9ea6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cYou have no empathy for anyone \u2026 no one is safe from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defendant drove his red Ford Escape into the crowd gathered to watch Waukesha\u2019s annual Christmas parade on November 21, 2021. According to the police, the alleged attacker used a \u201czigzagging motion\u201d as he drove through the crowd, seemingly indicating an intentional targeting of people.<\/p>\n<p>In a criminal complaint, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/16\/us\/darrell-brooks-waukesha-sentencing\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that an officer said Brooks looked \u201cdirectly at him, and it appeared he had no emotion on his face\u201d when he stepped in front of the vehicle, ordering him to stop.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant apologized to the victims and the Waukesha community when he spoke for more than two hours in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want you to know that not only am I sorry for what happened \u2014 I\u2019m sorry that you could not see what\u2019s truly in my heart,\u201d he said, according to The Associated Press. \u201cThat you cannot see the remorse that I have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defendant told the judge he grew up poor, hungry, and without a father in rat and bug-infested apartment buildings while struggling with mental health issues since he was young, and experienced physical abuse. His mother and grandmother asked the judge to place him in a mental institution rather than prison, claiming he has been bipolar since he was 12 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Dorrow cited passages and opinions from four mental health evaluations from the defendant\u2019s doctors and concluded \u201cthat mental health issues did not cause him to do what he did\u201d during the parade, \u201cand frankly did not play a role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waukesha County District Attorney Susan Opper told the judge that the defendant deserves the \u201cabsolute maximum sentence on all counts, consecutive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw the videos,\u201d Opper said, according to CNN. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t him plowing into one large group of fifty people at one time and hitting them \u2014 it was linear. He hit one, kept going. Hit two, kept going. Hit three, kept going. All the way down the street. That\u2019s consecutive sentences, your honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opper added the defendant\u2019s actions were \u201cintentional, willful, volitional conduct that warrants consecutive sentences stacked one on top of the other just as he stacked victims up as he drove down the road in complete disregard for any other person whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press reports Chris Owen, whose mother was among those killed in the attack, told the defendant, \u201cAll I ask is you rot, and you rot slow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to CNN, Alisha Kulich, the daughter of 52-year-old Jane Kulich, who was killed attending the parade, said her mother \u201cwon\u2019t get to see me say my vows or get married to the love of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd she won\u2019t ever get to see my future kids, and they won\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to have a grandma who spoils them,\u201d Kulich said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashe Schow contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge sentenced the Waukesha Christmas killer to life in prison without parole Wednesday for killing six people and injuring dozens more after he drove his SUV into a crowd at the Waukesha Christmas parade in the Wisconsin suburb last year. 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