Kyle Rittenhouse's friend testified Tuesday that the armed teenager was "freaking out," pale and sweaty after he fatally shot two people and wounded another during the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer.
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Kyle Rittenhouse chased down an unarmed man and fatally shot him in the back during Kenosha unrest, prosecutor says
Kyle Rittenhouse chased down an unarmed man and shot him four times, including a fatal shot to the back, during a night of unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last August,
a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening statements of Rittenhouse's homicide trial.
Rittenhouse, 17 at the time, fired an AR-15-style weapon eight times in all during the unrest: four shots at Joseph Rosenbaum, two shots at an unarmed unknown individual, one shot at an unarmed Anthony Huber and one shot at an armed Gaige Grosskreutz, according to Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger.
Rosenbaum, 36, and Huber, 26, were killed and Grosskreutz, now 27, was wounded.
"The evidence will show that hundreds of people were out on the streets experiencing chaos and violence and the only person who killed anyone was the defendant Kyle Rittenhouse," Binger said. "We will show you videos of some of the events that night of police, tear gas, rubber bullets and yet the only person who killed anyone was the defendant."
Binger's comments appear intended to undercut Rittenhouse's expected argument that he acted in self-defense and only fired to protect himself.
The statements mark the beginning of a trial that will test the distinction between self-defense and vigilante killings during chaotic protests and instances of rioting in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
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