Kyle Rittenhouse trial: Who are the key players?
Fox News
The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, an Illinois man accused of fatally shooting two people and wounding a third during chaotic August 2020 demonstrations, is underway in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The demonstrations were sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake two days prior, while responding to a domestic disturbance.
Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, was 17 at the time of the shootings. He served as a youth cadet in the Grayslake Police Department and posted photos of himself brandishing a rifle above the caption "Blue Lives Matter." He worked part time as a YMCA lifeguard in Lindenhurst, Illinois, before he was furloughed in March 2020. Rittenhouse testified that he was an EMT cadet at the Antioch Fire Department until the incident on Aug. 25, 2020.
He traveled to Kenosha, which is only about 15 miles from his home, on Aug. 25, 2020 after pleas went out on social media to protect businesses during riots over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a White police officer two days earlier.