'Something Dangerous Was Going to Happen': Witness at Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Speaks About Encounter With Shooter
A man who recorded video when the teenager fired his gun talks about what he saw in the moments leading up to the gunfire.
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A man who recorded video when the teenager fired his gun talks about what he saw in the moments leading up to the gunfire.
As the graphic unedited video was played, Rittenhouse looked away from the screens in the courtroom.
"Out of the hundreds of people that came to Kenosha during that week, the hundreds of people that were out on the streets that week, the evidence will show that the only person who killed anyone was the defendant, Kyle Rittenhouse," Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger told the jury during his opening statement.
A jury was empaneled late Monday in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Rittenhouse and his attorneys were in court for a status hearing in his homicide case, to deal with scheduling of preliminary matters ahead of his trial, which is set for November.
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A judge ordered Rittenhouse's attorney to inform the court clerk of his new home address, which will be shared with the Kenosha County Sheriff's office, but otherwise be kept secret, even from prosecutors.
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