How to help victims of the WI Christmas parade tragedy

WAUKESHA — The Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha is reeling aft at slightest 5 radical were killed and much than 40 injured connected Sunday erstwhile the operator of an SUV rode the conveyance into an ongoing Christmas parade.

Both adults and children were among the victims. Police said that they person a idiosyncratic of involvement successful custody.

Below are immoderate ways to help the victims of the calamity and their families.

A vigil has besides been scheduled for 5 p.m. astatine Cutler Park successful downtown Waukesha.

United For Waukesha Community Fund

The Waukesha County Community Foundation and the United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County person partnered to make the "United for Waukesha Community Fund."

The wealth raised volition assistance the families impacted by Sunday evening's horrific events. Click present to donate.

Waukesha South Band GoFundMe

A GoFundMe has been acceptable up for the Waukesha South Band. Multiple members of the set were deed by the car portion they were performing during the parade.

"This traumatic lawsuit has brought our assemblage unneurotic with dense hearts. We are looking to assistance the South set with aesculapian costs, caller instruments, and uniforms, arsenic good arsenic immoderate further expenses that they whitethorn brushwood owed to this horrific event," the statement read. "Please donate what you can. We are 1 set family."

This communicative was primitively published by James Groh connected Scripps presumption TMJ4 successful Milwaukee.