Gun Kyle Rittenhouse used in deadly Kenosha shootings destroyed by Wisconsin crime lab

The video featured is from a earlier report.

The state crime lab destroyed the rifle on Feb. 25, WISN reported. The station posted video exhibiting technicians unboxing the gun and feeding right into a shredder.

Rittenhouse’s attorneys and prosecutors agreed in January that the gun can be destroyed, Rittenhouse’s lead lawyer, Mark Richards, mentioned Rittenhouse did not need somebody to purchase it and switch it right into a trophy. The settlement referred to as for the method to be recorded.

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Rittenhouse shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz in the course of the protests in August 2020. The demonstrations started after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, throughout a home disturbance. The capturing left Blake paralyzed from the waist down.

Prosecutors filed a number of fees in opposition to Rittenhouse. A jury acquitted him on all counts in November after he argued all three males attacked him and he was compelled to fireplace in self-defense.

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Rittenhouse was 17 on the time of the protests, too younger to purchase a firearm in Wisconsin. His buddy, Dominick Black, purchased the gun for him earlier that yr. Black pleaded no contest in January to contributing to the delinquency of a minor.