CHICAGO – Kyle Rittenhouse will not face gun charges in Illinois similar to the AR-15-style weapon he is accused of employing to kill two men and injure a third violent protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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Antioch’s teenager, however, still faces a firearms rate in Wisconsin because Kenosha County prosecutors rated him as the property of a harmful weapon through an 18-year-old user, a misdemeanor. Tucker Carlson’s program last August that the fee was “wrong under state law” and that the U. S. Constitution and federal law protected the young user’s right to have the gun, gave no further details about that legal argument.
Little has been made public about the history of the firearm or the possible license of the teenager to possess firearms, so it is difficult to know what rates, if any, Rittenhouse or anyone else might have faced here if the investigation had revealed that it was his property. A lawyer working with Rittenhouse’s legal team said the weapon belonged to an unidentified friend of the teenager.
He may contact Antioch Police for comment, but his lawyer, Pierce, refused to comment.
Along with the firearm charge, Kenosha County prosecutors charged him with murder and other fees alleging he shot three men with the rifle on August 25 in violent protests against white police officer Rusten Sheskey who shot 29-year-old black boy Jacob Blake a couple of days earlier.
Rittenhouse’s lawyers argued that he shot all three in self-defense.
Rittenhouse’s lawyers are lately arguing that he will be sent back to Wisconsin to face the charges. His lawyers opposed his extradition in a petition last week, arguing in a component that sending the teenager to an adult prison in Kenosha County would put him at risk. Prosecutors are scheduled to search their counter-agreements this week, and Judge Paul Novak has scheduled a hearing on the matter by October 30.
The videos show that Rittenhouse is one of many rifle-armed civilians who were concerned about protests, asset destruction and looting that followed Blake’s shooting.
Kenosha County prosecutors wrote that the video showed the young man running into a parking lot, followed by Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, of Kenosha. The video shows that Rosenbaum appears to be throwing a plastic bag at Rittenhouse and that he doesn’t have it, the prosecutors wrote. A witness told police that Rosenbaum, who in the video gave the impression of being unarmed, had tried to capture the weapon before he was shot, prosecutors wrote.
The teen’s lawyers claimed in his petition last week that someone other than Rosenbaum fired a gun at Rittenhouse just before the confrontation that killed Rosenbaum. The file alleged rosenbaum had threatened Rittenhouse before chasing the teenager and running for his gun. “under serious threat of immediate harm,” the petition says.
Then Rittenhouse ran before someone fell out of his hat, he tripped and fell, the prosecutors wrote. Then Anthony Huber, 26, from Silver Lake, Wisconsin, approached Rittenhouse with a skateboard because the young man was still on his back, prosecutors wrote. Grab the gun as the skateboard “made contact” with Rittenhouse’s shoulder before the shooter fired, and Huber collapsed and died, prosecutors said.
Rittenhouse’s lawyers argued in his case that the skateboard hit Rittenhouse’s head and that he shot Huber while fighting for the rifle.
Prosecutors wrote that Rittenhouse then shot a guy who approached him, Gaige Grosskreutz of West Allis, Wisconsin. Grrosskreutz gave the impression that he was holding a gun when he injured his arm, the prosecutors wrote.
The teen’s lawyers said Grosskreutz had “lowered his Rittenhouse gun. “
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