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While waiting for his extradition from Illinois, Kenosha County prosecutors have charged teenager Kyle Rittenhouse will five felonies, including intentional and reckless homicide.
Rittenhouse has an extradition hearing in Waukegan today (Friday).
The 17-year-old is accused of killing two protesters and wounding a third during a night of unrest in Kenosha.
Friends say 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum of Kenosha and 26-year-old Anthony Huber of Silver Lake were the two men killed Tuesday. 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz of West Allis was apparently volunteering as a medic when he was wounded.
Rittenhouse’s attorney says his client was acting in self-defense.
Meanwhile, Kenosha police say they arrested nine people Wednesday night as they filled gasoline cans which officers think they were going to use at the protests.
Police had been tipped about suspicious vehicles with out-of-state plates who were meeting in a remote parking lot.
U-S Marshals joined the police as they followed a black school bus, a bread truck and a minivan to a gasoline station, then moved in as the occupants began filling the gas cans.
Investigators say those vehicles included equipment like helmets, gas masks, protective vests, illegal fireworks and suspected controlled substances.
The names of the people taken into custody haven’t been released.
