- Witnesses to the deadly Christmas parade horror in
Wisconsin described "surreal" scenes of chaos. - One witness told "Fox & Friends" that an SUV "just came barreling right in front of us."
Witnesses to the deadly Christmas parade horror in Waukesha, Wisconsin described "surreal" scenes of chaos when an SUV sped through crowds of marchers, striking children and other attendees.
"We could hear the screaming and like he was coming towards us, so we grabbed the kids," Jodi Singsime, who attended the Sunday parade with her family, said during an interview with "Fox & Friends" on Monday.
Singsime said that the driver of the SUV, who was not yet publicly identified by
At least five people were killed and more than 40 injured during the horrific incident in the small city at around 4:40 p.m. local time on Sunday, authorities said.
Singsime, a nurse, said she spotted "a little boy on the ground" after the incident who she ran to help.
"He was turning purple," Singsime said, adding, "He had a pulse, I felt his neck. There was another nurse there with me and we were talking about doing what you call rescue breathing."
"At that moment we heard somebody say the medics are here. I got up and again somebody came running past us and said 'active shooter,'" she said. "I think we heard it three different times so everybody cleared the streets and ran back into the shops and hunkered down in the shops again."
Police said that an officer opened fire on the SUV at the time and that no bystanders were injured.
Singsime's son, Jaden, called the aftermath of the incident "pure chaos."
"The parade was really just a parade full of kids. And for somebody to drive through it and hit all those kids is like that just takes pure evil," Jaden said.
The aftermath, Jaden said, "was really just kids in the street lying down and families and parents running around trying to find their lost children and running in and out of the shops yelling their kids' names."
"It was just pure confusion. It was really scary and it was very sad," he said.
Another witness, Angela O'Boyle, told "Fox & Friends" that she saw the horror unfold from her balcony.
O'Boyle said she saw the SUV "crash into the band members."
"He continued all the way down the block to the end of the street, didn't stop at all, just kept going, running over people the entire time," she said. "He went completely to the end without stopping."
O'Boyle added, "It was surreal to watch. I couldn't believe it was happening. It was hard to watch and not something you want to see again, for sure."
Police have said that authorities have detained a person of interest in connection with the deadly incident.
A motive was not yet clear.