MILWAUKEE — On day three of 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial, the 20 person jury was shown multiple videos from the night Rittenhouse shot and killed two men, and injured a third in August 2020.
The jury saw several videos from different people who were recording and live streaming the protesets and shootings involving Rittenhouse that night. Rittenhouse, who often hasn’t showed any outward emotion, was watching the videos as well, and often diverted his attention from the screen.
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.
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