Felony charges filed against 19-year-old who allegedly bought rifle for Kyle Rittenhouse

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

When Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly shot and killed two people and seriously wounded another man in August during racial justice protests in Kenosha, Wis., he used an assault rifle that authorities said a friend had bought for him.

At 17, Rittenhouse was too young to have legally bought the Smith & Wesson M & P-15 rifle himself.

Prosecutors have charged that friend, 19-year-old Dominick David Black, with two felony counts of intentionally selling a gun to a minor. Black made his first court appearance on Monday in the Kenosha County Circuit Court.

Authorities say Black bought the rifle in April for Rittenhouse, who then allegedly used the gun on Aug. 25 to shoot and kill Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and to seriously injure Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, during civil unrest sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black Kenosha resident.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/10/kenosha-dominick-black-gun-charges-rittenhouse/

[Deuce]

1. Good...

[SheltieLover]

2. I hope he is being kept in custody!

Glad the authorities found him & charged him.

[TigressDem]

3. Sadly, August 25th will never be the same for me again.

It IS my birthday, but now.... this horrible thing happened on that day too.

[marie999]

11. I think most people have had something happen on their birthday.

Mine is June 8, the day the Israeli military attacked the USS Liberty and killed 38 Marines, Sailors, and a civilian. I had gone to school at NSA with some of them.

[cyndensco]

4. I wonder when they are going to charge the killer's mother.

Driving murderer across state lines/aiding and abetting.

[Deuxcents]

5. My thought, too

[csziggy]

8. The story that his mother drove him was an early false trumor

From the link in the OP:

After police shot Blake, 29, in the back at least seven times as he reached into his vehicle, peaceful daytime protests preceded nighttime riots and violent clashes with police in Kenosha, about 40 miles south of Milwaukee. As the protests worsened, Black’s stepfather took the guns out of a locked safe where they were usually stored, the Journal Sentinel reported.

Armed men with ties to extremist groups flocked to the city, ostensibly to protect private property from protesters. Black allegedly asked Rittenhouse if the 17-year-old wanted to come to Kenosha to help protect a local business.

Black told police he worried about Rittenhouse wielding the gun, but he thought his friend “would have thrown a fit” if he tried to stop him, the Associated Press reported.

After the shootings, Black allegedly drove Rittenhouse back to his home in Antioch, Ill., with the rifle in his trunk, and then kept the guns in Wisconsin, according to court records.

Now it appears as though the person who supplied Rittenhouse with the gun also transported him to Kenosha - where, by the way, the gun was stored. These two young men deliberately crossed state lines to obtain a weapon and to engage in conflict with the protestors.

[cyndensco]

15. Thanks for that.

[Archae]

12. While she didn't drive him there...

Now she is blaming everyone BUT her brat for the shooting.

"My little boy can do NO-THING wrong!" (paraphrased)

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/kyle-rittenhouses-mom-blames-protesters-and-cops-after-teen-guns-down-two-protesters/

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Lock him up. Mom too. More from the basket of murderous deporables.

[James48]

7. He needs to be brought up on federal charges

That’s a straw purchase, age violates federal law. Why is he only being brought up on state charges?

I can’t wait to get rid of Barr and get real justice to work again.

[Baclava]

9. It's the very definition of an illegal straw purchase, right on the ATF Form 4473, 11a

[Mr.Bill]

14. Not until noon on January 20th.

Trump could pardon him on federal charges.

[Initech]

10. Lock these murderous pieces of shit up!