Man Shot by Kyle Rittenhouse Describes the Encounter on a Kenosha Street

The testimony underscores the prosecutors’ challenge in disproving a self-defense claim. Gaige Grosskreutz, who was armed, was shot while responding to an earlier shooting.

KENOSHA, Wis. — Gaige Grosskreutz, the only person who survived being shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wis., in August 2020, took the witness stand on Monday and described the instant he faced Mr. Rittenhouse, who had just fired several shots with a semiautomatic rifle.

“What was going through your mind at this particular moment?” Thomas Binger, the prosecutor, asked in court.

“That I was going to die,” Mr. Grosskreutz, a volunteer paramedic, said.