Accused killer Kyle Rittenhouse makes first in-person court appearance

Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen gunman accused of killing two people during Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin last summer, made his first in-person court appearance Friday afternoon ahead of his upcoming murder trial. 

Dressed in a blue suit, light blue button down shirt and a black mask, Rittenhouse, now 18, made no comments to the court as his lawyer hammered out trial deadlines with the prosecution team and the judge.  Rittenhouse was 17-years-old when he armed himself with assault weapons and traveled 20 miles from his home in Antioch, Illinois to Kenosha last August so he could “protect businesses” amid days of riots following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.