Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Used Coronavirus Stimulus Check To Buy AR-15
17-year-old Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse has revealed that he used his COVID-19 stimulus check to purchase the AR-15 that killed two people during protests for Jacob Blake.
In a telephone interview with the Washington Post, an incarcerated Rittenhouse claimed that he acted in self-defense and has no regrets for arming himself. He had a friend buy the weapon for him as he wasn’t legally allowed to.
“I got my $1,200 from the coronavirus Illinois unemployment because I was on furlough from YMCA and I got my first unemployment check, so I was like, ‘Oh, I’ll use this to buy it,’” Rittenhouse said.
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Rittenhouse was arrested the next day in Antioch, Illinois, following the fatal shootings of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26.
Rittenhouse claimed that he acted in self-defense despite nobody else being armed but him.
“I was going into a place where people had guns, and god forbid somebody brought a gun to me and decided to shoot me … I wanted to be protected, which I ended up having to protect myself,” Rittenhouse added. “No, I don’t regret it. I would have died that night if I didn’t. I feel like I had to protect myself.”