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Darrell Brooks was sentenced to life in jail while not the chance of extended direction Wednesday for driving his SUV into a crowd of Christmas parade attendees in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last year, killing six individuals and wounding dozens.
In a clean sweep for the prosecution, a jury found Brooks, 40, guilty last month on all seventy six counts stemming from the attack, together with six counts of first-degree intentional killing with the utilization of a dangerous weapon.
Following 2 days of statements from victims and members of the family, decide Jennifer Dorow obligatory the mandated sentence, ordering Brooks to serve a time while not the chance of extended direction for every of the first-degree killing counts. The sentences can run consecutively, she said.
Dorow conjointly obligatory sentences totaling many years for the remaining seventy counts on that he was found guilty. She sentenced Brooks to 17½ years for every of the sixty one counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety with the utilization of a dangerous weapon.
“You have completely no regret for love or money that you just do. you’ve got no sympathy for anyone,” Dorow aforementioned. “Frankly, Mr. Brooks, nobody is safe from you.”
Brooks spoke for quite 2 hours, telling the court he struggles to grasp why this tragic incident happened.
“The why, the how,” Brooks aforementioned. “How might life ever get this secluded from what it ought to be? despite what plenty of individuals might imagine regarding Maine, regarding UN agency i’m, regarding my family, regarding my beliefs, i do know UN agency i’m. God is aware of UN agency i’m, and that i don’t have any words of anger.”
He secure to not “throw shots” at anyone as a result of he wished to require the “high road” on the other hand proceeded to attack Waukesha County public prosecutor Susan Opper’s integrity, expression he can ne’er respect “how you probably did your job” and claiming his crimes were none of her concern.
Brooks’ grandparent, Virgin Mary Edwards, aforementioned it absolutely was her prayer Brooks “will sincerely and humbly apologize,” and he or she apologized herself “to people who are hurt thus badly by what is going on, this tragedy that has been caused by my grandchild.” Brooks, UN agency delineated himself, apologized one time, expression nobody will see the regret he feels.
“I need you to grasp not solely am I pitying what happened, I’m sorry that you just couldn’t see what’s really in my heart, that you just cannot see the regret that I even have,” he told the court. “That you can’t count all the tears that I even have born during this year.”