Jacob Blake

 The white Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer who shot a Black man in the back, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, had been the subject of five internal investigations since he joined the department in 2013. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that it has reviewed the personnel file of Officer Rusten Sheskey, who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the...

A 19-year-old Kenosha man has been charged with two felonies after prosecutors say he gave a gun to Kyle Rittenhouse, the suburban teen accused of killing two protesters during unrest in the southeastern Wisconsin city. Dominick Black was charged with two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a person under the age of 18, causing death. On May…

Family members of police shooting victims like Beonna Taylor, George Floyd, Jacob Blake and Alvin Cole are doing their part to mobilize young black voters with the 2020 election just days away. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports

Any claims about what happened in Wisconsin have no role in whether to extradite an Illinois teenager to that state to face charges in the killing of two protesters, prosecutors said Thursday.

A Racine man is accused of firing off a “warning shot” on the night two people were killed in downtown Kenosha during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Thirty-five-year-old Joshua Ziminksi pleaded not guilty last week to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct with the use of a dangerous weapon. A criminal complaint notes that investigators reviewed multiple…

A 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will not face charges in his home state of Illinois, prosecutors said Tuesday. An investigation revealed the gun used in the Kenosha shooting was purchased, stored and used in Wisconsin, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office said. There is no evidence the gun...

A 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is due back in court Friday as his attorneys fight efforts to send him to Wisconsin to stand trial on homicide charges.

A 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, remains in custody in his home state of Illinois as his attorneys fight efforts to send him to Wisconsin to stand trial on homicide charges. Kyle Rittenhouse appeared on a video stream and wore a face mask during a brief court hearing Friday...

Sending a 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to stand trial in Wisconsin would “turn him over to the mob,” defense attorneys argued in court records Thursday. Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested at his home in Antioch, Illinois, a day after prosecutors say he shot and killed two protesters and injured a...

Jacob Blake was released from the Wisconsin hospital where he was receiving treatment and is now in a rehabilitation center more than a month after he was shot by Kenosha police.

After the release of grand jury recordings in Breonna Taylor’s case, family members of Taylor and relatives of Jacob Blake joined together Saturday to call for unity. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

Family members of Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake joined Chicago Rev. Jesse Jackson Saturday in Evanston, Blake’s hometown, to call for reform within the country’s judicial system. One day earlier, Kentucky’s attorney general released grand jury recordings, including testimony from police and witnesses, in the case of Taylor, a Louisville EMT who was fatally in March shot during a botched...

The Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times last month told investigators he thought Blake was trying to abduct one of his own children and that he opened fire because Blake started turning toward the officer while holding a knife, the officer’s lawyer contends. Brendan Matthews, the attorney for Officer Rusten Sheskey and the...

On Friday, Kyle Rittenhouse and his attorneys revealed plans to fight the teen’s extradition from Illinois and Wisconsin. Now, Phil Rogers with NBC 5 Investigates reports Rittenhouse’s lawyer has a video that reveals the defense strategy.

Attorneys representing Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old Lake County youth accused of killing two people and wounding a third during protests last month in Kenosha have mounted a high-profile defense alleging he acted in self-defense. “This is 100% self-defense,” Los Angeles attorney John Pierce stated in a video posted to Twitter earlier this month. “If this is not self defense for…

An attorney for the 17-year-old from Illinois charged in shootings that left two people dead and a third wounded last month during unrest in Kenosha said in a hearing on Friday that they planned to challenge the teen’s extradition to Wisconsin. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

An attorney for the 17-year-old from Illinois charged in shootings that left two people dead and a third wounded last month during unrest in Kenosha said in a hearing on Friday that they planned to challenge the teen’s extradition to Wisconsin.

The 17-year-old from Illinois charged in shootings that left two people dead and a third wounded last month during unrest in Kenosha appeared in a hearing on Friday during which his attorney said they planned to challenge his extradition to Wisconsin.

Note: The latest updates on what happened at Kyle Rittenhouse’s extradition hearing can be found here. The 17-year-old charged with fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during unrest in Kenosha last month is scheduled to appear in court Friday for a hearing on whether or not he’ll be extradited to Wisconsin. Kyle Rittenhouse, from the Chicago suburb...

The 17-year-old charged with fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during unrest in Kenosha last month is scheduled to appear in court Friday for a hearing on whether or not he’ll be extradited to Wisconsin. Chris Hush reports.