Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old teenager from Antioch, Illinois, shot and murdered two people and injured another during various incidents at two places on August 25, 2020.
Rittenhouse is charged with homicide in connection with the August 25 shootings, which occurred during the civil disturbance that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake, who was paralyzed from the waist down two days earlier.
He was equipped with a Smith & Wesson M&P15 rifle, and one of the people Rittenhouse shot had a handgun.
Kyle Rittenhouse Age Details
Kyle Rittenhouse was apprehended in Antioch on Wednesday, August 26, on a warrant from Kenosha, accused of being an outlaw from equity, and is being imprisoned in the Lake County Juvenile Detention Center near Vernon Hills.
Police have not identified the suspect, but according to Lake County court records, Kyle Rittenhouse is 17-year-old.
The high schooler is accused of opening fire on a crowd during fighting in Kenosha.
According to a Facebook post, the adolescent, who is accused of opening fire on a crowd during fighting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the night before, killing two people, is in the custody of the Antioch police department.
The 17-year-old, who they say lives in Antioch, was not identified in the post. Regardless, the Lake County, Illinois State’s Attorney’s office stated that Kyle Rittenhouse appeared in bail court today for being an outlaw from the equity in Wisconsin and is being held on no bond.
On Friday, August 28, he was scheduled to appear in court for a deportation hearing.
A smartphone video circulated on social media showed what appeared to be a White guy with a self-loading weapon beginning to shoot at a crowd of people amid protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
The gunman is then seen strolled with his hands up towards reaction cops, who drive away.
Update On His Trial Verdict And Shooting Footage
Rittenhouse is accused of killing Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, of Kenosha, and Anthony Huber, 26, of Silver Lake and injuring Gaige Grosskreutz, 26 of West Allis. According to his counsel, he acted in self-defense.
The following day, Kyle Rittenhouse turned himself to authorities in Antioch, Illinois, and was imprisoned in a juvenile detention center fighting his extradition to Wisconsin.
On October 30, he lost that challenge and was taken to Kenosha.
A ruling by a Wisconsin judge on Monday on the language lawyers may use in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial has re-focused global attention on the case.
Rittenhouse will stand trial next Friday for fatally shooting three people at a protest against police brutality in Kenosha, about 40 miles southeast of Milwaukee, last year.
Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder has a standard rule that prohibits the use of the term victim until someone has been convicted of a crime, and Schroeder stated that the persons shot by Rittenhouse could not be considered victims.
Schroeder set up the final ground rules for what evidence would be permitted at the trial on Monday.
The judge ordered that the defense’s use-of-force expert and how police welcomed Rittenhouse and others carrying guns throughout the demonstration would be allowed to testify.