(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A Waukesha, Wisconsin native on Sunday attended the city’s annual Christmas parade for the first time — only to see the event tailspin into a deadly tragedy.
Eliza Schefus, a mother of three, was accompanying her daughter, Cataleya, who had been walking in the parade with her Liberty Dance Center team.
They went back to their vehicle to get warm when a motorist struck the crowd, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40. Schefus left her daughter locked in the car and ran to the scene.
Her older daughter, Naomi, was in a different spot in the parade, with her dance team.
“I witnessed multiple victims down in the street, most of which were children,” she tells WBBM Newsradio’s Lauren Brown, a family friend.
Schefus said she’s grateful neither she nor her daughter witnessed people being mowed down. But her 2-year-old son, Jaxon, who was with her mother, did.
“The entire car ride home yesterday, he just kept repeating, ‘Hey, mommy, did a guy do this?’ And he’s 2. So, I can only imagine what conversations are happening with other parents and their children who witnessed this.”
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