- The suspect in
Wisconsin 's deadly Christmas parade attack was officially slapped with an additional charge. - Darrell Brooks, 39, was charged with a sixth count of first-degree intentional homicide.
The suspect in Wisconsin's deadly Christmas parade attack has been officially slapped with an additional charge in connection to the SUV rampage that killed six, according to court documents filed Monday.
Darrell Brooks, 39, was charged with a sixth count of first-degree intentional homicide for the November 21 attack in the small city of Waukesha, an amended criminal complaint shows.
Prosecutors charged Brooks with the sixth count after 8-year-old Jackson Sparks, who was injured in the rampage, died at an area hospital two days after the tragedy.
Brooks was initially charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide for the deaths of Tamara Durand, 52; Jane Kulich, 52; LeAnna Owen, 71; Virginia Sorenson, 79; and Wilhelm Hospel, 81.
The suspect is accused of intentionally plowing his SUV into marchers in an annual Christmas parade.
Sixty-two people, including more than a dozen children, were also injured in the horrific attack.
According to the amended criminal complaint filed Monday against Brooks, the child who died in the rampage "suffered significant injuries as a result of being hit by the vehicle" Brooks was driving.
The Waukesha County Medical Examiner's office concluded that the boy's cause of death was craniocerebral injuries from blunt force trauma to the head, the complaint says.
As of Monday, seven children who were injured in the attack remained hospitalized at Children's Wisconsin, hospital officials said.
Three were in serious condition, three others in fair condition, and one in good condition, the hospital said.
Brooks, who has a lengthy criminal record, remains held in a Wisconsin jail on $5 million bail.