KENOSHA, Wis. — On the sixth day of the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial, the man who survived being shot in the arm by Rittenhouse during protests in Kenosha, took the stand to testify.
Gaige Grosskreutz, who said he was volunteering his time to help anyone who needed medical attention during protests, testified that he felt he was going to die moments before he was shot in the arm. Additionally, Grosskreutz described the emotion he felt after seeing Rittenhouse shoot and kill Anthony Huber, just moments before he was shot himself.
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. 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.
