He said he thought the "safest option" was to turn himself in to police who were on the road nearby. Rittenhouse said he intended to help Rosenbaum, but was in shock as someone else attended to Rosenbaum. Then, Rittenhouse said, "I shoot him." He also said he thought the object Rosenbaum threw - a plastic hospital bag - was the chain he'd seen Rosenbaum carrying earlier. I remember his hand on the barrel of my gun." Rittenhouse said he heard a gunshot "directly behind me," and as he turned around, Rosenbaum was coming at him "with his arms out in front of him. He said another protester, Joshua Ziminski, told Rosenbaum, "Get him and kill him." (Mark Hertzberg/Pool/The Associated Press) Rittenhouse is accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a protest against racial injustice and police brutality in Kenosha last year.
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He said Rosenbaum was running at him from one side and that there was another protester with a gun in front of him, "and I was cornered." He said that's when he began to run.Ĭircuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder rebukes the prosecutor after a defence motion for a mistrial because of prosecutorial misconduct during Rittenhouse's trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Wednesday. Under questioning from his own attorney, Rittenhouse said he was walking toward a Car Source car dealership lot with a fire extinguisher to put out a fire when "I hear somebody scream, 'Burn in hell!' And I respond with 'Friendly, friendly, friendly!' " Rittenhouse says protesters threatened to kill him He could get life in prison if convicted of the most serious charges against him. Rittenhouse was 17 when he went to Kenosha with an assault-style semi-automatic weapon and a medic bag in what he said was an attempt to protect property from rioters. He is on trial facing charges of killing two men and wounding a third during a protest against racial injustice in the summer of 2020.īinger later asked Rittenhouse: "During this entire sequence, no one ever fired a shot at you, correct?" I defended myself," said Rittenhouse, 18. When a third man, Gaige Grosskreutz, "lunges at me with his pistol pointed directly at my head," Rittenhouse shot him, too, wounding him. Rittenhouse said that after he gunned down Rosenbaum, he shot another man in the street, Anthony Huber, after Huber struck him in the neck with his skateboard and grabbed his rifle. Under cross-examination, Rittenhouse said that he "didn't want to have to shoot" Joseph Rosenbaum, the first man to fall that night, but he said Rosenbaum was chasing him and had threatened to kill him earlier.īut Binger sought to drive home the state's contention that Rittenhouse created the dangerous situation that led to bloodshed that night.
Kyle Rittenhouse began testifying at his homicide trial on Wednesday at the Kenosha County Courthouse about his actions on a summer night in 2020 when he fatally shot two men and wounded another during anti-police violence protests in Kenosha, Wis.
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