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The suspect accused of being behind the wheel of an SUV and plowing into a crowd of people at a Wisconsin Christmas parade Sunday, killing six people and injuring more than 60, has been charged with five counts of intentional homicide in connection to the incident.

The Christmas parade crash is leading to renewed calls for giving judges more power to set bigger bails, but legal experts cautioned that one extreme case should not be reason to push for higher amounts.

The driver of an SUV that plowed into a crowd of people at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40, was in a domestic disturbance just minutes before the deadly crash, authorities said Monday.

Thomas Kluka Jr. told NBC’s “TODAY” show that his family was seated at their usual spot on the parade route when he saw the car careening through the crowd and noticed “something wasn’t right.”

Dan Thompson, Waukesha Police Dept., and 
Chief Steve Howard, Wauskeha Fire Dept., gave an update Sunday night after a car plowed into a crowd at the city’s Christmas parade.

A Wisconsin man was arrested and accused of driving a red SUV into a crowd at a Waukesha Christmas parade, officials said on Monday

A “person of interest” was in custody, police said, as authorities investigated whether the driver may have been involved in a knife fight or stabbing before the SUV arrived at the march.