Dawn Woods biography: 10 things about Milwaukee, Wisconsin woman

Dawn Linette Woods is an American woman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. She is the mother of twins Darrell Edward Brooks Jr. and Eboni Danielle Brooks.

Woods worked as a nursing assistant at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee and as a personal care assistant at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Here are 10 more things about her:

1. In 1978, she graduated from West Division Sr. High School in Milwaukee. The school was later renamed the Milwaukee High School of the Arts.
2. In 1982, she gave birth to Darrell and Eboni in Milwaukee. Eboni is the mother of Anaji Brooks and Aubrei Brooks.
3. On January 25, 2014, her daughter Eboni died of an illness.
4. On April 13, 2020, she filed for bankruptcy in Wisconsin.
5. On July 24, 2020, she was living in a four-bedroom house in Arlington Heights, Milwaukee with Darrell and Anaji when Darrell shot at Anaji in a fight over a cellphone.
6. On November 5, 2021, Darrell was charged with resisting an officer, felony bail jumping, second-degree recklessly endangering safety with domestic abuse assessments, disorderly conduct and battery in Milwaukee. On November 19, 2021, she posted the $1,000 bond for him. On November 21, 2021, he was arrested after a red Ford Escape sport utility vehicle plowed into crowds at the 58th annual holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing at least five people and injuring at least 40 others.
7. On December 1, 2021, a letter to the media, which she signed, said in part, “We are not making excuses but we believe what has happened is because he was not given the help and resources he needed.” Darrell was charged with 83 counts.
8. On October 3, 2022, Darrell’s trial started. On October 6, 2022, she told FOX6 News that he “didn’t mean to hurt nobody” and he “knows nothing about the city of Waukesha.”
9. On November 16, 2022, she spoke to the court before Darrell received a total of six consecutive life sentences plus more than 700 additional years in prison.
10. She was 64 years old when Alma V. Garcia Ramirez, Lucio Hernandez Rubio and their two children filed a civil complaint on September 14, 2023 against Darrell and Progressive Universal Insurance Company.