Rittenhouse trial: Someone else fired into the air first
By AMY FORLITI, TAMMY WEBBER and MICHAEL TARM
Associated Press
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A detective at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial says that someone in the crowd fired a shot into the air just 2 1/2 seconds before Rittenhouse began shooting on the streets of Kenosha. The defense has said that shot made Rittenhouse think he was under attack. At the time, Rittenhouse was being chased by Joseph Rosenbaum, the first man he shot and killed. Video took center stage again Thursday in the Illinois man’s trial in the shootings of three men — two fatally — after Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha in August 2020 with a medical kit and a rifle in what he said was an effort to safeguard property from damaging riots.
