MILWAUKEE — Day two of 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial is underway.
A jury of 20 people was selected Monday evening in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. The jury includes 11 women and nine men. Per a pool reporter in the courtroom, there is one person of color, a man who said he “has friends on both sides of the aisle” on their opinion of the case.
Rittenhouse, from Illinois, is charged with killing two people and wounding a third during a police brutality protest in Kenosha, Wis., last year.
Rittenhouse faces six counts, including first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree intentional homicide, in the Aug. 25, 2020, deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz, who is now 27. Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, could face life in prison if convicted on the first-degree homicide charge.
The now-18-year-old traveled across the state border from his home in Illinois to Kenosha, during protests in the city following the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white police officer. The case is polarizing across the political spectrum, with some seeing him as a vigilante, and others portraying him as a patriot who acted in self-defense.
Rittenhouse, Rosenbaum’s partner Kariann Swart and Doug Kelley from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office are just some of the people expected to testify throughout the trial.
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