Rittenhouse Trial Judge Approves Agreement to Destroy Rifle Used in Shooting Deaths

A Wisconsin judge on Friday approved an agreement to destroy the rifle used by Kyle Rittenhouse in the incident in 2020 which resulted in the shooting deaths of two people and the injuring of a third.

Judge Bruce Schroeder, who presided over Rittenhouse’s trial, approved the agreement to destroy the weapon. The district attorney said that Rittenhouse had signed a statement giving him permission to destroy it. Rittenhouse was not in court.

Rittenhouse was acquitted in November of all charges related to the deaths of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum — and the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz — who he shot during a protest in Kenosha. He had argued he fired in self-defense.