Affected by this senseless act. My heart goes out to those injured as well as to their families. My heart goes out to those who are witness to these events. My heart goes out to those who lost a loved one tonight. I want to thank those that sprang into action to provide help and comfort to those injured. I pray for those injured that they recover. I pray for those that lost a loved one. Thank you to the Police Departments and many others that helped the city of waukesha. Theres other departments, the county, the state, the federal government contacted me and their asked how they can help. I know the First Responders are deeply affected and i pray for them. Chief . Thank you. Todays tragic incident occurred november 21, 2021, at 4 39 p. M. At main street. The Waukesha Christmas parade was taken place when a red suv westbound heading down main street. Can you speak up please . Yes, i can. The vehicle struck more than 20 evenings. Some of the individuals were children and some fatalities. We will not be releasing the information on fatalities while we work to notify the Family Members of the deceased. An officer did discharge his weapon at the suspect vehicle to try to stop the vehicle. No bystanders were injured due to the weapon discharged. The officer involved is with the department 6 1 2 years. Victims were transported to the hospital and Police Officers and Family Members transferred victims from the scene to the hospital. Well no longer look for a suspect vehicle. We have a Person Of Interest in custody at the moment but this is still a very fluid investigation. As those that saw firsthand the Resilience Sy of the Community Coming together. I also want to thank you all Law Enforcement partners federal, state dci, state patrol, the sheriffs department, our own police department, fbiing atf and all other partners who responded to assist in this tragedy. Its unknown whether this is terrorism. To the families involved you are in the Police Departments thoughts and prayers. The community, the scene is safe and secure. Ill take a few questions at this time. Can you speak of the victims . Sorry. Thank you. I was just going to provide brief information regarding the patients transported. The city of waukesha was part of the parade and have an engine in the parade. When the calls came in we immediately responded from five stations. We activated the Mass Casualty Protocols and used the Mavis Box Alarm System and activated a box on the second alarm so we received assistance from the five Fire Stations and approximately 12 other fire departments. The city of waukesha and partners transported 11 adults and 12 pediatric patients to 6 area hospitals. We do not have any specifics on the injuries at this time. All the patients were transported. There are there were some fatalities. We do not have any detailed information at this time. Just real quick. Sorry, chief. A few questions for all three. Mayor, police chief or fire chief. How many people were killed . Out of respect for the Family Members, we still have to make notifications so that number and to be honest with you the case is fluid so i dont have an exact number at this time to give you. The marked van what school is that . The marching band. I couldnt tell you. The shelter in place issued. Can you elaborate . The reason why that shelter in place call came we were doing a canvas and ongoing crime scene so we didnt want members of the Community Coming into the crime scene so we wanted the members of the community to shelter in place and why that alert went out. Is that still in effect . No. It is not. Perhap struck by the officer . Thats still an ongoing investigation, how many are involved. Schools are closed tomorrow . Are schools in waukesha closed tomorrow . I dont know that. Can you confirm that . One more question. How long do you expect the streets to be closed . You said you were unaware of gunshots from the vehicle. Can you clarify that the Suspect Driving we dont believe there were shots fired from the vehicle. We believe that the officer discharged a shot to stop the vehicle. What did the person say when they were taken into custody . Unknown. Thats all the questions well take at this point. Press conference or further information. Thats all we can put out tonight at the time. Thank you. [ inaudible ] good evening. You just heard from officials there on the ground in waukesha, wisconsin. Police have confirmed one person is in custody after a red suv drove into a crowd attending a Holiday Parade. More than 20 is injured and 1 person is confirmed dead. Lets go to richard lui on top of the story from the beginning. Richard . Yeah. A lot of information coming out from the police chief in the short amount of time on air in this Press Briefing about six minutes long and confirmed the vehicle, that it went westbound. Based on the video to observe we also knew that and he did confirm fatalities. They are not providing details as to the number as they do as normal in protocol to notify the families first. Thats why they have the Family Reunification Center and may have been an indication potentially that we or they were watching the probability of fatalities. Something else that stood out for us listening to this is that he was saying that family as well as officers as well as the ambulances were bringing those wounded to hospitals and other places of care. That meant it was all hand on deck as family were doing that. Another point that i thought was very interesting that came through is reminding me of covering the incidents in towns of this size in the past where you just know that the officers know that the journalists you know that the families in the streets, you know that Everybody Knows everybody so that for many of the officers, many of the First Responders that work at the fire department, the fire chief there, as well, they might know many of those injured and who died today. Personally. Friends of family or Family Members. Thats the unfortunate as well as the beauty of the situation is that theyre caring for their own. The Mass Casualty Protocol the fire chief brought up, he gave us an indication of the breakdown which is probably hit you the same way it hit me when he said the kids and the adults. That they moved to the hospitals and he said 11 adults and 12 kids. And that says a lot. And it really this is a parade. Right . And now we are getting the der details that none of us want to talk about. More than half of what they brought to the hospital and data on were children. Potentially seeing the picture and the video showing folks throughout the evening of that car rushing by and see the Young Children sitting by the side and therefore tells us that the car, that suv, was mowing through people, potentially sitting by the side. Those on the parade route. We dont know. We are going through the video as you know right now. Some of which the Standards Department is showing its okay to show and been able to take a look at that and might tell us once we put that on air why or how this all happened but that number at the bottom of the screen 12 pediatric patients to the hospital makes us think twice. While i have you because i want folks to see an interview you did earlier with an eyewitness but i want to double check to make sure i heard and you heard the same thing. From the police chief asked about the fatalities he said he doesnt have the exact number. Right. He also said that a Person Of Interest is in custody. And that unknown if theres a nexus with terrorism. Right. In custodies is different than the last briefing or the little bit of information and didnt want to admit if they had that Person Of Interest in custody or not. The explanation about shelter in place might be that part of the answer. They were open to others involved or were involved in this. You are alluding to a conversation i had earlier with one of those folks standing by did you recollect this parade. This was our conversation from earlier. Resident of waukesha. What did you see and what are you hearing now . Thank you for having me. Im a resident of waukesha. Been here the majority of my life. We were enjoying the holiday spirit and had a great day with family and looking forward to just seeing what we can enjoy. We go to the parade every year and excited to see it this year because it was canceled last year. We were sitting at whats known as the five points which is the center of the downtown. Five different streets converge upon one, and we were sitting there watching the parade. Everything was going great. But i noticed and heard a couple Police Vehicles behind us. Going through an intersection probably two blocks behind us and just wasnt sure what was going on and took notice because it was very loud over the parade. And a few minutes after that, a red suv which im sure you have seen by now, came barreling Down The Street very, very high rate of speed and hit a pedestrian that was directly across the street from us. I dont know the condition of that person at this time. But with many people rushed to that persons aid as soon as it happened. The vehicle continued going through the parade route. It smashed into the back of a float that had just passed our location. You are saying after getting on to the pathway of this parade, that the suv then proceeded to go down if you will kind of like a Bowling Alley straight down that street . Correct. Yes. From what i understand, yeah. Basically got on to it is our main street and just had a wide, open shot, and so, went as high rate of speed as it could hitting everything and anything in its path. I believe some of the band members that were at the other end of the parade coming down the parade route, they were hit, injured. I think everyone is okay from the school. The director is good friend of ours and thankfully she and the students are okay from what we understand. But as soon as it happened we gathered up my son and cousin and her children and made the way back to the car. As police and fire vehicles and every Emergency Vehicle you could imagine were flying into downtown. Did you hear, greg, any reports of shots . Did you hear any loud noises . My wife said she thought she heard some possible shots. I heard something. I couldnt tell you exactly that it was a gunshot. It was loud bangs. Not a high rate or anything but definitely some loud possible gunshot sounds. Did your wife tell you how many shots . Do you remember . 20 . 30 . Four or five . No, no. Maybe one or two. It was a very small number. Were you sitting at the five points area . Is that where the parade begins or ends . Thats kind of middle of the parade route. It starts i would say four blocks north of the location we were at, and so, it was kind of a the parade was just continuing through. I would say it was nearing the end but but still full end to end if you will . Still full end to end as far as participants and spectators. So as this suv entered did it basically plow through half of the parade route in essence . It was from what i understand just from seeing local reports i believe it traveled almost the entire parade route. Is it about a mile long . Yeah. I would say about a mile long parade route. You know, i know it was really tough for you. Trying to get your son and wife and friends and family out of the space. How many people were part of your group . We had about eight people in our party. Are all of you okay . Yeah. Thankfully everyone with us directly and the people around us were okay. The vehicle came down the opposite side of the street from where we were sitting. Still very, very close. How close would you say . I would say probably 30 feet. If you think of the distance across a street if you stand on a corner. The vehicle came in the opposite lane. This is main street . The name of it . Yeah. It is main street. The parade route goes down main street and turns back on to whats known as Wisconsin Avenue and kind of backtracks along that route before it finishes. Did you see any i know this is not what you want to see. We have all unfortunately heard stories or been part of stories like this. Did you see folks that were injured . Did you see the pedestrian that was hit . Yes. The pedestrian was hit just kind of kitty corner across the street from where we were. As soon as the vehicle hit them and continued on people other spectators were immediately running to their aid and but i couldnt tell you the condition or anything. Because as soon as we could we got out of that location just trying to keep the family safe. No doubt. Kind of torn at the same time. Run towards or away to take care of the family. Right. When you saw the red suv, there have been some eyewitness accounts of all of a sudden they heard the Engine Rev Up or flooring, flooring the gas pedal as soon as it got into the main part of the thoroughfare of the parade. Did you hear anything like that . I didnt hear the engine revving. I just knew it was going extremely fast. I know it is not like you carry around the ability to know how fast a vehicle is moving. Any guess how fast . Sure. I would say at least 50 to 60 miles per hour. Wow. Its pushing highway speeds coming Down The Street. And so, this vehicle came Down The Street, greg, and All Of A Sudden Turned and got on to at the five points intersection . No. It was actually coming straight down main street. It didnt turn. It was coming down the main street. It was traveling straightforward direction. Yeah. Was there anything about this parade that might make it different this year . Theres headlines that youre probably very aware of being close to kenosha. But was there any headlines or any themes of this years parade that were different that might be relevant to anything thats been going around as of late . No. I believe the theme was comfort and joy. Its the 125th anniversary this year of the city of waukesha. And so, we were excited to be part of it again, especially after not being able to see it last year. Greg, boy. Anything i missed in terms of something that you and your wife or your family talked about walking back home . Just trying to keep our kids safe. Thats the biggest thing. We have our three young kids with us. They saw everything. So we were just trying to keep them safe and got them home and got some Hot Chocolate just to warm us up. It was pretty windy out there and trying to keep them as safe as possible and help them find the joy and know that our First Responders were there to help and helping everyone in this situation. How many First Responder vehicles did you see if you had to guess . Just in the moment we started walking back i would say dozens. Gosh, i would say 40, pushing 50 Emergency Vehicles. Not only city police but also county sheriff. Sure. Vehicles. Any and every how fast . Emergency vehicle. I would say 40, 50 miles per hour. Im sorry. Ten minutes after the incident . Oh no. Immediately. Immediately. As soon as we started walking back the all the vehicles, every Emergency Vehicle. Within five minutes . I would say within five minutes that were flying into the Downtown Area because it was an active situation and they were still trying to figure out the location of the suv through the parade route. That was Scott Gregory there. Lifelong resident of waukesha. Difficult situation. Starting the discussion with how tight knit the community is, maybe 16 marked police cars in the entire city. About 100 officers in total. Going back to the theme of all very closely knit and probably know the 11 adults and the 12 children reported so far that are in the hospitals and the big question, what was happening with that red suv . Was it trying to take out people or was it fleeing away from something . Which you were talking about with Jim Kavanaugh and investigations department. We may have more on those maybe some ideas about how to answer that question but still trying to dig that up. 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