kenosha shooting

A Kenosha homeowner fought with an intruder and eventually killed the assailant. The Kenosha Police Department said the incident happened Friday evening after someone reported that a suspicious person was damaging vehicles and trying to enter homes. The suspect eventually broke into a home and attacked the homeowner. Police said “the homeowner fought back and the intruder was subsequently killed…

“He’s had 24 hour security since this happened,” Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense attorney said.

“To say that we were relieved would be a gross misunderstanding. And Kyle is not here. He’s on his way home. He wants to get on with his life,” Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Attorney Mark Richards said following the decision from the jury on Friday.

Activist Bishop Tavis Grant spoke outside the Kenosha courthouse moments after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges after killing two people during social justice protests last summer. Grant appeared alongside Justin Blake, the uncle of Jacob Blake who was killed in Kenosha and whose death prompted the protests Rittenhouse attended.

Many of the schools are within a mile of the Kenosha County Courthouse, and some are in even closer proximity.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys sparred in court Wednesday, and jurors once again did not reach a verdict on the second day of deliberations in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has more.

The judge at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial has dismissed a count of possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18.

With closing arguments in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial set to start Monday, police and state officials are preparing for the possibility of unrest. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter reports.

 Judge Bruce Schroeder accused prosecutor Thomas Binger of an improper line of questioning during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial Wednesday.

Kyle Rittenhouse testified before a jury Wednesday about the moments he opened fire on three people during unrest in Kenosha.

The jury must decide whether Rittenhouse acted in self-defense, as his lawyers claim, or was engaged in vigilantism when he opened fire with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle in August 2020.

A man who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest last year against police brutality in Wisconsin has filed a federal lawsuit alleging police enabled the violence by allowing an armed militia to have free run of the streets during the demonstration.

Federal prosecutors say they won’t file charges against a white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last year