One witness said Rosenbaum was gunned down after chasing Rittenhouse andlunging for his rifle. Last week, witnesses testified that Rosenbaum, 36, was “hyperaggressive” and “acting belligerently” that night and threatened to kill Rittenhouse at one point. “He was pale, shaking, kind of stammering, slurring his words. You have to ignore that.”įiedler said she later opened the door of the dealership for Rittenhouse after the shootings, and he appeared to be “totally in shock” and fell into her, telling her he had shot someone.

“The whole night was quite shocking, but we didn’t really do anything,” Fiedler said of the yelling directed at those guarding the store. But Fiedler, who said she carried a pistol, testified she never saw Rittenhouse threaten or point his gun at anyone. She said he didn’t give any details about what happened but told her he “had to do it.”įiedler, the defense witness, was with Rittenhouse outside the car dealership just before the first shooting, and said they were being shouted at and taunted by protesters, including Rosenbaum. “My god, my life might be over,” another witness, JoAnn Fiedler, quoted Rittenhouse as saying. “He repeats, ‘I just shot someone’ over and over, and I believe at some point he said he had to shoot someone,” testified Nicholas Smith, who said he had gone to the protests that shook Kenosha that night at the request of the owners of a car dealership to protect the business. The defense then began presenting its side, calling as its first witnesses people who were on the streets with Rittenhouse that night and described him as pale, shaking, sweating and stammering after the shootings. His lawyers have suggested the 17-year-old was afraid his gun would be taken away and used against him. Kelley was one of the final witnesses for the state before prosecutors rested their murder case after 5 1/2 days of testimony that were aimed at portraying Rittenhouse as the aggressor but often bolstered the young man’s claim of self-defense. Doug Kelley, with the Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office. (AP) - The first man killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was shot at a range of just a few feet and had soot injuries that could indicate he had his hand over the barrel of Rittenhouse’s rifle, a pathologist testified Tuesday.īut it was unclear from video footage whether Joseph Rosenbaum was grabbing for Rittenhouse’s gun or trying to swat it away, said the witness, Dr. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.

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