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Testimony and video footage shown during the two-week trial revealed that Mr. Rittenhouse was chased into a parking lot, at one point byJoseph Rosenbaum, 36 who was unarmed and behaving erratically. Mr. Rittenhouse turned and shot him at close range, killing Mr. Rosenbaum, who had been living in Kenosha.
Mr. Rittenhouse then shot two other people - Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz - who pursued Mr. Rittenhouse as he fled, testimony showed.
Over the course of the trial, prosecutors sought to portray Mr. Rittenhouse, a former resident of Antioch, III., as an instigator who had behaved with criminal recklessness, inserting himself into a volatile scene of demonstrators and then firing his gun with little provocation.
There was chaos that night in Kenosha, Mr. Binger the prosecutor, told the jury in his opening statement. But "the only one who killed anyone," he said, "was the defendant, Kyle Rittenhouse."