Complete Story
 

11/19/2021

Jury Finds Rittenhouse Not Guilty After He Shot Two People on Video

He was charged with five felony counts stemming from the shootings

A jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty Friday on all charges stemming from the 2020 shootings that killed two people and severely injured another during chaotic protests against racial injustice in Kenosha, Wis.

The jury delivered its verdict Friday afternoon, after three and a half days of deliberation following the high-profile, three-week murder trial. As the verdict was read aloud, Rittenhouse reacted by falling to the ground briefly before crying and hugging his defense attorney.

Rittenhouse was 17 when he carried an AR-style semiautomatic rifle on the streets of Kenosha during a turbulent protest in the summer of 2020 and opened fire on demonstrators, killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and seriously wounding Gaige Grosskreutz

Please select this link to read the complete article from Yahoo! News.

Printer-Friendly Version