The witness denied the statement, which his roommate had posted on social media last year. Grosskreutz agreed.Ĭhirafisi also asked Grosskreutz if, in the days after the shooting, he had told his roommate his only regret was not firing his whole clip at Rittenhouse. "It wasn't until you pointed and advanced that (Rittenhouse) fired, right?" Chirafisi asked. Kyle Rittenhouse will argue self-defense: Experts say proving the argument to a jury isn't easy. It's lower, and the gun is more oriented toward Rittenhouse, though not directly aimed in an outstretched arm. "Is that how you'd hold a firearm if you were going to shoot it?" Binger asked. He said no.Ĭhirafisi countered with a photo of Grosskreutz just as the bullet hit his arm. He said no, at least not intentionally, and stood before the jury trying to demonstrate how he said he turned his body edgewise toward Rittenhouse as he sat on the ground with his rifle.ĭuring the demonstration, Grosskreutz held a water bottle in his left hand, where his cellphone was, and a portable microphone stood in for the gun in his right. There was also much back and forth about whether Grosskreutz pointed the gun at Rittenhouse. He never mentioned he was holding the loaded Glock in his right hand when Rittenhouse shot him.Ī still photo from one of the many videos shot that night, shows Grosskreutz drawing the weapon from the small of his back while he's still more than 30 feet behind Rittenhouse, who ran after having shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, minutes earlier at a car lot at 63rd Street. In it, Grosskreutz said his gun had fallen from his waist, where it was clipped, while he was running. On cross-examination, defense attorney Corey Chirafisi brought up his initial statement to police. The gun would factor prominently in his testimony. Grosskreutz retreated, holding his wounded arm and screaming for help. How it happened: A visual timeline of violence in Kenosha after police shooting of Jacob Blakeīut before he could get to Rittenhouse, he had cleared the jam and fired at Grosskreutz, blasting apart his right bicep near his elbow. "Not the kind of person I want to become." "It's not the kind of person I am," Grosskreutz said. And as Rittenhouse racked the rifle firearm, Grosskreutz decided to try to throw himself at Rittenhouse, even though Grosskreutz was holding his own loaded Glock handgun.Īssistant District Attorney Thomas Binger asked why he didn't shoot instead. He put his hands up and "thought I was going to die," Grosskreutz told jurors at Rittenhouse's trial for shooting him and killing two other men during chaotic protesting last summer in this Wisconsin city.īut the rifle jammed, Grosskreutz said. Grosskreutz, 28, said he had just seen Rittenhouse fire twice at a man who tried to kick him and once fatally into the chest of a man who came at him with a skateboard, before pointing his AR-15-style rifle at him from 5 feet away. Gaige Grosskreutz testified Monday he always carried a gun for protection, but that he couldn't pull the trigger when it might have saved him from being shot by Kyle Rittenhouse.
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