Kyle Rittenhouse faces up to life in prison if convicted of the highest charge
Experts say the argument from Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal team that the young man was defending himself in August 2020, when he fatally shot two people and wounded a third, was bolstered on Monday by testimony from one of the injured men – who acknowledged that he did point his gun at Rittenhouse in the moments before he was struck.
Gaige Grosskreutz took the stand inside the Kenosha County courtroom in Wisconsin on Monday morning as the prosecution’s 16th witness. He was one of three people shot by Rittenhouse during a night of destruction and unrest on Kenosha and he was the only person to survive the gunfire.
Rittenhouse’s attorneys have argued repeatedly that their client was acting in self-defense, and fired his semi-automatic rifle because he was being chased or faced with a gun. Meanwhile, the prosecution has tried to depict Rittenhouse as the person who instigated the events, including by emphasizing that he is the only person to have shot someone during the night of unrest.