this is just such a hard story to cover. we learned quite a bit in that press briefing. let me get you quickly up to speed if you re just joining us. they did release the names and the ages of the five people who lost their lives in waukesha. a 79-year-old woman, virginia sorenson. a 71-year-old, leanna owens. a 52-year-old, tamara durant. an 81-year-old named wilhelm haspel. they said 48 others were injured. and among them, many children. the children s hospital of wisconsin says there are 18 children in the hospital right now, ages 3 to 16. three sets of siblings. and in the pediatric icu there are six critical. they also now have named a suspect. his name is daniel thompson i m sorry, that s the police chief. the suspect is darrell brooks, a 39-year-old man.
waukesha and everyone wants to know why. what were the reasons why? we have some reporting to indicate that maybe that man you mentioned the person of interest was involved in some type of knife fight before hand. we ll try to get more answers and clarity later on in a press conference that authorities will have later on here in waukesha. it s just sad, it s upsetting and right during the holidays and this is such a special place and parade for this community that you can t even imagine. now, tom, what a horrendous tragedy and as you say in this time when people are coming out and it s last year that parade was not held because of covid issues. i m wondering, tom, do we know the 40 injured, what condition many are in? we don t and we are going to expect to hear more in about 20 or 30 minutes. the hospital, the children s hospital is going to have a news conference, a virtual news conference and we hope to maybe get a status update. of course, they can t share of all of the informat
that s where all the mayhem happened. that s where the parade was happening at the time. they believe the man turned on to main street and headed in the westbound direction and just began plowing into people. there were different groups, jose, at the time. this was a very popular parade here, holiday parade. you had children s dance troop, you had the dancing grannies, you had marching bands and you had volunteers from the archdiocese of milwaukee here. all of them are victims this morning. we know that at least two grannies from the dancing grannies have passed away and a troop of elderly women that would dance in the parade and make people laugh and happy and several children. 18 kids were taken to children s hospital of wisconsin and being treated right now. as you mentioned, five people have died in this. 40 injured. jose, so many injuries that there weren t enough ambulances so parents were picking up their children and rushing them off to the hospital. this has taken everybody by