Felony charges filed against 19-year-old who allegedly bought rifle for Kyle Rittenhouse
Source: Washington Post
When Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly shot and killed two people and seriously wounded another man in August during racial justice protests in Kenosha, Wis., he used an assault rifle that authorities said a friend had bought for him.
At 17, Rittenhouse was too young to have legally bought the Smith & Wesson M & P-15 rifle himself.
Prosecutors have charged that friend, 19-year-old Dominick David Black, with two felony counts of intentionally selling a gun to a minor. Black made his first court appearance on Monday in the Kenosha County Circuit Court.
Authorities say Black bought the rifle in April for Rittenhouse, who then allegedly used the gun on Aug. 25 to shoot and kill Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and to seriously injure Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, during civil unrest sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black Kenosha resident.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/10/kenosha-dominick-black-gun-charges-rittenhouse/
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Glad the authorities found him & charged him.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)It IS my birthday, but now.... this horrible thing happened on that day too.
marie999
(3,334 posts)Mine is June 8, the day the Israeli military attacked the USS Liberty and killed 38 Marines, Sailors, and a civilian. I had gone to school at NSA with some of them.
cyndensco
(1,697 posts)Driving murderer across state lines/aiding and abetting.
Deuxcents
(16,200 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)From the link in the OP:
Armed men with ties to extremist groups flocked to the city, ostensibly to protect private property from protesters. Black allegedly asked Rittenhouse if the 17-year-old wanted to come to Kenosha to help protect a local business.
Black told police he worried about Rittenhouse wielding the gun, but he thought his friend would have thrown a fit if he tried to stop him, the Associated Press reported.
After the shootings, Black allegedly drove Rittenhouse back to his home in Antioch, Ill., with the rifle in his trunk, and then kept the guns in Wisconsin, according to court records.
Now it appears as though the person who supplied Rittenhouse with the gun also transported him to Kenosha - where, by the way, the gun was stored. These two young men deliberately crossed state lines to obtain a weapon and to engage in conflict with the protestors.
cyndensco
(1,697 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)Now she is blaming everyone BUT her brat for the shooting.
"My little boy can do NO-THING wrong!" (paraphrased)
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/kyle-rittenhouses-mom-blames-protesters-and-cops-after-teen-guns-down-two-protesters/
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Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)James48
(4,436 posts)Thats a straw purchase, age violates federal law. Why is he only being brought up on state charges?
I cant wait to get rid of Barr and get real justice to work again.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,284 posts)Trump could pardon him on federal charges.