The teenager who appeared to be defending himself from the mob in Kenosha last night has now been arrested for intentional 1st degree murder:
FOX NEWS – A 17-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection to at least one of the two shooting deaths amid the unrest Tuesday night in Kenosha, Wis., Illinois police confirmed on Wednesday.
Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested in his hometown of Antioch, Ill., Wednesday on suspicion of intentional first-degree homicide, Commander Norman Johnson of the Antioch Police Department said. Antioch is about 20 miles southwest of Kenosha.
Rittenhouse was a “fugitive of justice” and “fled the state of Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution” on a first-degree intentional homicide charge filed in Kenosha County, according to court records in Lake County, Ill., obtained by Fox News.
Two people were killed and a third was sent to the hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries after the shots rang out near 63rd Street and Sheridan Road around 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, the Kenosha Police Department said in a statement.
Cellphone video circulated on social media showing a young, White male running down the street with a long gun, as he was chased by demonstrators from behind. He fell to the ground, and someone tried to grab his weapon and came at him with a fly-kick. The individual then opened fire in the middle of the street, and screams could be heard from the frantic crowd.
The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office said it was investigating whether the shooting was connected to a group of armed vigilantes guarding a gas station nearby.
I’ll be the first one to admit that it’s hard to know everything that went on last night from the little video we saw. But even as Fox News notes, the teenager was being attacked and the assailant was trying to get his rifle when he opened fire – after he fell to the ground!
Here’s another screencap of the attack where you can see the assailant grabbing the man’s rifle with the other man behind him holding a handgun:
Well, well, well… pic.twitter.com/v5qim1b6DS
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 26, 2020
I don’t see how police get intentional 1st degree murder out of this, and hopefully that won’t be the final charge after a full police investigation. But I fear for this dude, especially if Kenosha has a rogue prosecutor like these other Democrat hell-hole cities.
UPDATE: You can see some high resolution Getty photos of the shooting here: