Kyle Rittenhouse cried and vomited as he described what happened on August 25, police records show.
A visibly upset 17-year-old accused of fatally shooting two demonstrators in Wisconsin told officers at his local police station in Illinois where to find an assault rifle he said he had used just two hours earlier to shoot several people, according to police records. cycled through a range of emotions, crying and vomiting several times, as he described to police what happened late on August 25 after he traveled to Kenosha, ostensibly to protect businesses from protesters following the police shooting of, a 29-year-old Black man, Antioch Police Department records show. “I shot two white kids,” Rittenhouse said, adding that he had “ended a man’s life.” Rittenhouse walked into the Antioch Police Department with his mother shortly before 1:30 a.m. on August 26, according to records the department released to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Chicago Tribune on Friday. He is accused in the killing of two protesters and the wounding of a third. Rittenhouse faces a misdemeanor charge of underage firearm possession in Wisconsin, in addition to first-degree intentional homicide, which carries a life prison sentence. He was extradited to Wisconsin on Friday. Rittenhouse’s case has taken on a political edge, with some conservatives portraying him as a patriot who was exercising his right to bear arms during unrest. Others see him as a domestic terrorist who incited protesters by showing up wielding a rifle.
