Waukesha Christmas parade alleged killer's mom blames lack of mental health services on tragedy

Key Facts

• Brooks, 39, suffered from mental illness and was on medication since he was child, according to the letter and court papers.
• "Institutions that are equipped and have trained staff is what was needed as well as resources in the communities where people who suffer with mental illness live," the letter says.
• "We as a society must take mental illness seriously by fixing a broken system or suffer the consequences, sad as it is to say what happened in Waukesha will keep happening all over this country, in one form or another with more innocent lives lost and grieving families and communities," Dawn wrote.
• "What was meant to be a joyous day became a day of tragedy and heartache — a day that we wish with all our heart would have never happened," the letter says.

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