A
17-year-old has been arrested after two people were fatally shot and another
injured in Kenosha, Wisc., on Tuesday night, during protests over the police
shooting of Jacob Blake.
Kenosha
County Sheriff David Beth, Kenosha Police Chief Dan Miskinis, Kenosha County
Executive Jim Kreuser, and Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian spoke to the media
Wednesday afternoon. They confirmed the arrest of the suspect, who is being
charged as an adult, and faced difficult questions about what happened Tuesday
night in the hours before, during, and after the shooting which claimed two
lives.
Videos from
Kenosha show a young white man firing at protesters during an encounter late
Tuesday. The suspect appeared to be carrying an AR-15-style rifle and standing
guard with a militia group earlier in the night, multiple videos show.
Demonstrators
were decrying the police shooting of Blake, a Black man officers shot in the
back multiple times on Sunday afternoon while he was trying to climb into his
SUV. It was the third consecutive night of protests in the city of Kenosha related
to the shooting.
Kenosha protests – Teen 'fugitive from justice'
arrested for murder after two shot dead as sheriff hits out at armed militias
'deputising' for police
Jon
Sharman,
Danielle
Zoellner @dani__zoellner
23 minutes
ago
A 17-year-old Illinois resident has been arrested
and is expected to be charged of at least one count of first-degree intentional
homicide following a Tuesday evening shooting during Kenosha, Wisconsin, that
resulted in two people dead and one person injured.
Kyle Rittenhouse was named as a suspect in the
shooting. Video footage has showed a white gunman carrying a semi-automatic
rifle opening fire in them middle of the street and fatally shooting two
people.
The protests turned violent on Tuesday evening as
people gathered in honour of Jacob Blake, who was shot by police seven times on
Sunday. Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth later condemned armed
"vigilantes" attempting to deputise for police officers in response
to the protests.
Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he would
be sending the National Guard to Wisconsin after Governor Tony Evers requested
the federal assistance.
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