KENOSHA, Wis. — The second week of the trial for Kyle Rittenhouse begins Monday in Kenosha County.
Gaige Grosskreutz, the man Rittenhouse shot and injured, will testify Monday. Prosecutors indicated last week that his testimony could take up a lot of time, since he is the only person who survived after being shot by Rittenhouse.
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.
He 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.
