By Luis Hernández Ojesto M. and Rubén Pereida
The Perales were walking in the Waukesha Christmas parade Sunday afternoon when a pickup truck crashed into them, sending the parents and their three girls to the hospital with multiple injuries.
So far, six people have died and more than 60 were injured in the run over during the festival, including an 8-year-old boy named Jackson Sparks who died Tuesday at Wisconsin Children's Hospital from his injuries.
At the same hospital, six other children are still in critical condition,
including one of the 11-year-old Perales sisters.
One of the Perales sisters, minors who were injured in the fatal accident in Waukesha, is recovering at the Wisconsin Children's Hospital.Noticias Telemundo
Photographs obtained by Noticias Telemundo show two of the girls in the hospital, one of them intubated and the other in bed.
They both have lacerations on their faces.
César Perales witnessed the moment in which a brown SUV that suspect Darrell Brooks was driving, who is in custody, hit five of his family members.
"Being there in front of them, looking at them how they are suffering, one feels ugly, a very great pain
,
"
the uncle of the hospitalized minors said in an interview with Noticias Telemundo, who also spoke about the surgical interventions that the father of the family.
"They underwent surgery on his right foot for almost six hours on Sunday, today they operated on him again and apparently on Friday they are going to do another operation on the same foot," he said.
The Perales family, before being hit in the Waukesha, Wisconsin Christmas parade Courtesy
Being there in front of them, looking at them how they are suffering, one feels ugly, a very great pain "
César Perales family member of the victims
Both the 10-year-old sister and her father also remain hospitalized.
The girls' mother and younger sister have already been discharged and are currently continuing their recovery from home.
"For me it has been devastating, something we never imagined, something tremendous, unacceptable," Bertha Granado, great aunt of the injured girls, told Noticias Telemundo.
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"The car hit them directly"
Another relative, Lucero Isabel Perales, started a GoFundMe page to raise funds to help them pay for their medical care at the hospital.
"My family was part of the parade along with the Waukesha Catholic group. The car hit them directly and they are currently in the hospital," the relative wrote on the aforementioned website.
"My uncle broke his leg and had to undergo a six hour emergency operation. He is currently in intensive care.
One of my cousins had a skull fracture and is in a coma
and my older cousins have many bruises throughout the body, "he added.
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So far they have raised more than $ 52,000
, which they say will be used in full to cover hospital bills.
"We hope for the miracle that many of the people who suffered this trauma, this accident, are also waiting for that miracle," said Granado.
Pastor Edwin Aparicio, who also witnessed the brutal Waukesha outrage, still struggles to understand how anyone could have done such a thing.
[Among the injured in Waukesha are undocumented immigrants who live an odyssey to receive medical attention]
"Because you do that?!"
he exclaimed, putting his hands to his head, during an interview with Noticias Telemundo.
"People flew out, families were crying," he explained.
Brooks, 39, has been charged with five counts of first-degree manslaughter, crimes that merit life in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors announced Tuesday that next week they will file more charges related to the 62 injury victims and an additional murder charge in the death of the child Sparks.
