Waukesha, Wisconsin, police say they “are having an emergency with a scene unfolding” in response to reports, from multiple people there, of a car running through the city’s Christmas parade and shots being fired. An officer said there were as many as 40 people wounded or dead on the scanner. Local residents told Heavy that their loved ones were barricaded in stores after a vehicle drove through the crowd with someone firing gunshots from it. They reported many people lying on the ground, injured or dead.
One man’s son was almost struck by the truck, and he gave Heavy this extremely graphic and disturbing account:
“We just heard screaming up the parade route and looked over, and the red jeep or SUV came barreling through,” Michael Hurst, a woodworker from Waukesha whose son was almost hit by the truck, told Heavy in a phone interview. “I pulled my son away. He probably got missed by about a foot. There was a little kid next to us that got hit. I did see dead bodies. The amount of people who are going to be dead from this, it might even be worse than that Las Vegas shooting. They have a whole block of Main Street that is casualties. We did hear that there were active shooters. We don’t know where that came from or if that’s true. The police pulled me into a building and said to stay in there, get in there, there’s active shooters. One officer told us they did stop the active shooters. My son was out in that street grabbing candy.”
He added: “At that moment I thought just to grab my son and family and get them on the curb. It was 100% intentional.” He believes the truck drove through the parade for about a mile. “I saw a young boy get hit. He was still alive. He was in a lot of pain. I am pretty sure he was going to have broken legs. I did see another guy who was laying in the street. I guarantee he was dead. There were about 20 ambulances coming and going. It looked like a war zone down there.”
This live video may have captured the vehicle, screams, and a law enforcement officer running. Officers were frantic, yelling, even screaming on the scanner, which you can listen to later in this article.
One very disturbing video showed a young man helping his grandpa to safety in a truck. “There’s shots fired now, guys,” he says in the Instagram video as kids cry in the background. “it’s f***cking chaos. That was the worse thing I’ve ever seen in my life.” A man wails, “What is wrong with the world right now?” Be forewarned that the video contains graphic language and is very disturbing.
Waukesha is a suburban city in a conservative, affluent county next to Milwaukee County. Wisconsin, of course, has been riven with divisions recently over the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal in Kenosha, which is about an hour away from Waukesha. There is no indication of a connection at this point or not – there is just no information about motive or suspects yet because the incident is unfolding.
Kaylee Staral, whose Twitter page describes her as a business reporting intern with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wrote on Twitter, “UPDATE: A car just ran through the middle of a downtown Waukesha parade. Multiple people on the ground injured.” She wrote that police were shouting that 30 people were injured.
Police did not confirm (or deny) that a shooting occurred or the information about a car running into people at the parade. They said only the above statement on the emergency and then hung up because the incident was still unfolding. That was as of 5 p.m. on November 21, 2021. But Heavy has obtained reports from multiple people with relatives at the scene, as well as social media accounts that all say the same thing: Multiple people are injured after a car or truck plowed through a barricade and into the parade and shots were fired.
Authorities have not confirmed whether there are any injuries or deaths. Scanner traffic indicated that authorities have coded victims into different categories, red, yellow, green and black, although it’s not clear what that means at this point.
Listen to the archived scanner audio here. The second one captures the aftermath.
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