Kenosha Shooting Suspect Charged With Six Criminal Counts, Including Homicide

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Demonstrators revisit the site where a protester was killed in Kenosha, Wis. On Aug. 25, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two protesters. He was charged on Thursday with six criminal counts, including first-degree intentional homicide.

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A series of viral videos from Tuesday night captured dramatic scenes allegedly involving Rittenhouse, who is white.

The following day, Rittenhouse was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and taken into custody by police in Antioch, Ill., about 15 miles southwest of Kenosha.

Antioch police said in a statement on Wednesday that Rittenhouse was in custody of the Lake County Judicial System and pending an extradition hearing to transfer to Wisconsin.

A criminal complaint filed Thursday details prosecutors’ version of events and identifies the shooting victims as Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber. A third man, Gaige Grosskreutz, was transferred to the hospital with what Kenosha police described as «serious but non-life threatening injuries.

A friend of Huber’s told the Chicago-Sun Times that the 26-year-old was a fearless skateboarder and great father to his girlfriend’s daughter. Rosenbaum, who was 36, is remembered by his sister as a jokester and compassionate father who leaves behind a 2-year-old daughter.