Helter $kelter

“Like, Helter Skelter is a nightclub. Helter Skelter means confusion. Literally. It doesn’t mean any war with anyone. It doesn’t mean that those people are going to kill other people. It only means what it means. Helter Skelter is confusion.”

-Charles Manson

From CNN:

(CNN)As authorities piece together the circumstances regarding how and why an SUV barreled through marchers during a Christmas parade Sunday in Waukesha, Wisconsin — killing five and injuring dozens — the suspected driver of the vehicle will make his first appearance in court on Tuesday.

Darrell E. Brooks, 39, is the lone suspect, according to Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson. Brooks is slated to appear at 4 p.m. CT and will face initial charges filed, according to the Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office.

“We are working closely with the City of Waukesha Police Department to review the matter and decide what criminal charges will be issued,” the DA’s office said Monday. Police said they would be referring five counts of intentional homicide as well as other charges.

Brooks had been released from jail less than two weeks ago in a domestic abuse case — on a $1,000 bail that prosecutors recommended and now say was “inappropriately low.”

Police say Brooks is the man responsible for intentionally driving the SUV through a series of barricades and driving past parade marchers and spectators at a high rate of speed, later running over individuals before racing away through the streets of Waukesha, a city just west of Milwaukee.

Videos from the scene show a tragedy unfolding as eyewitnesses described the trauma of seeing pedestrians struck by the vehicle. In the following chaos, first responders and residents worked to treat the victims, with some officers and citizens transporting the injured in their personal vehicles to the hospital, Thompson said.

Five people were killed Sunday and have been identified by authorities: Virginia Sorenson, 79; LeAnna Owen, 71; Tamara Durand, 52; Jane Kulich, 52; and Wilhelm Hospel, 81.

48 people were treated at area hospitals, according to Waukesha Fire Chief Steve Howard.