On late Tuesday, protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, turned deadly after three people were shot, two fatally. Later, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested after fleeing to his home state of Illinois and charged with first-degree murder.
Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyer, L. Lin Wood, is claiming that his teen client, who was arrested after murdering two people and injuring one with a semit automatic rifle, was defending himself. The lawyer referred to newly-emerged video that appears to reveal that the only shooting survivor, Gaige Grosskreutz, was in possession of a handgun.
The newly-released video, shared in social media, shows Rittenhouse sitting on the ground cradling a rifle, and a person later reportedly identified as Gaige Grosskreutz approaching him. Rittenhouse then shoots Grosskreutz, who has a gun in his hand. The New York Post attached a picture to the video, showing a pistol, clearly visible, in his hand.
According to prosecutors, Rittenhouse fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and seriously wounded Grosskreutz during the protests in the city of Kenosha sparked by the shooting of Jacob Blake by an officer.
The criminal complaint released Thursday said that Rittenhouse had been followed by Rosenbaum, who was unarmed, into a used car lot. There, Rosenbaum tried to throw a plastic bag at him, and then was said to try to grab Rittenhouse’s gun before being shot. Then, Rittenhouse shot Huber, who approached Rosenbaum who was lying on the ground.
The court documents cite Richard McGinnis, a Daily Caller reporter who interviewed Rittenhouse before the shooting and was said to have witnessed the incident.
The video of Rittenhouse’s interview emerged on social media as well, revealing him standing with his gun and explaining that he arrived to help the locals to defend their property from protesters.
According to the complaint, Rittenhouse made a call and said that he had committed a murder.
Rittenhouse was arrested in Illinois late Wednesday and charged with six criminal counts, including first-degree murder.
The killings took place amid a series of protests, some violent, spanning Wisconsin’s city of Kenosha after a video of a white police officer shooting a black man named Jacob Blake in the back emerged. Blake, according to police, is charged with domestic abuse and rape. According to the victim’s family, Blake, who survived the shooting, is now paralyzed from the waist down.
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