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\"Illinois
Kyle Rittenhouse has been charged with homicide. (Photo: Daily Caller\/Screenshot)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A 17-year-old from Illinois has been charged with first-degree homicide after his involvement in two separate shootings Tuesday that left two people dead and one wounded at the Jacob Blake protests in Kenosha, Wi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Village of Antioch Police Department announced in a Facebook post <\/a>on Wednesday that Kenosha authorities had charged Antioch resident Kyle Rittenhouse with the crime. He is in the custody of the Lake County Judicial System pending an extradition hearing to transfer custody from Illinois to Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viral videos of both incidents rocketed around social media yesterday. In the first, a person who appears to be Rittenhouse carrying an AR-15 can be seen running away from a protester who throws something on fire at him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moments later, eight shots ring out, though it isn\u2019t clear how many of them come from Rittenhouse\u2019s rifle. At least some of the shots came from an unknown gunman who fired into the air, according to the New York Times<\/a>. A man lies on the ground between two cars, and Rittenhouse circles around while speaking on the phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People can be heard yelling \u201cCall 911! Get help!\u201d Rittenhouse, still on the phone, runs from the scene and out of the frame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rittenhouse shot the man in the head, and he later died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First death of #Kenoshaprotest<\/a> shooting, two angles. #Kenosha<\/a> #KenoshaUprising<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/gS8ezsaAdu<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Anonymous Operations (@AnonOpsSE) August 26, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Sheriff Vows to Deputize Gun Owners to Protect Citizens from Rioters<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a video of the second incident, a crowd of people can be seen running after Rittenhouse, and someone asks, \u201cWhat\u2019d he do?\u201d to which someone else responds, \u201cHe shot someone!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rittenhouse falls, and someone yells, \u201cGet his ass!\u201d while people converge and try to take his gun. One of them hits Rittenhouse with a skateboard, and the teen fires one shot at his attacker while lying on the ground. That man later died. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He sits up and fires another shot at a different person who comes towards him holding a handgun. The man was shot in the arm and lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crowd disperses and several more shots ring out, though they do not appear to come from Rittenhouse\u2019s gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The teen jogs down the street towards police vehicles and attempts to flag them down with his hands in the air. The vehicles drive past him, and it isn\u2019t clear whether he was apprehended before the video ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WATCH VIDEO!

Kyle Rittenhouse 17 years old
from Antioch, IL shoots a man in the head with an AR-15 & kills him in Kenosha. He also shot 2 more people killing 2.

Evades street justice by running toward cops with an AR-15
AND the Police just let him go!

pic.twitter.com\/wpmBjLsGH3<\/a><\/p>\u2014 kirk acevedo (@kirkacevedo) August 26, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Americans of All Races Take Up Arms to Defend Against Violent Rioters, Looters<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rittenhouse was interviewed by the Daily Caller just hours before the shootings occurred. He may have been in Kenosha as part of a militia group organized to protect local businesses, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople are getting injured, and our job is to protect this business,\u201d he told the Daily Caller. \u201cPart of my job is also to help people. If there\u2019s somebody hurt, I\u2019m running into harm\u2019s way. That\u2019s why I have my rifle because I need to protect myself, obviously. But I also have my med kit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Rittenhouse was a supporter of the police, according to screenshots<\/a> from his now-removed Facebook page. He at one point used a Blue Lives Matter frame for his profile page, and he was involved in a youth police cadet program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier that day, he was spotted<\/a> with a group helping to clean graffiti off of a court house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protests in Kenosha were sparked by the police shooting last week of a black man named Jacob Blake. Blake was shot in the back seven times after resisting arrest, and a knife was found in his car, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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