"I just shot someone": Kyle Rittenhouse was severely distraught after shootings, defense witnesses say

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Kyle Rittenhouse was badly shaken after shooting three men during street unrest in Kenosha, at one point telling a person who had joined him in an effort to protect businesses from damaging protesters that "my life might be over," according to testimony at his murder trial.

"He repeats, 'I just shot someone' over and over, and I believe at some point he said he had to shoot someone," testified Nicholas Smith, who was alongside Rittenhouse at a car dealership in August 2020 and was the first witness called by his defense team as they began their case Tuesday.

Another witness in Rittenhouse's group, JoAnn Fiedler, described him as pale, shaking, sweating and stammering after the shootings.