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and occupy adjacent columns in contemporary American argument about guns, protests and state force, but they are very different figures: Rittenhouse is the then-17-year-old who crossed state lines to ...
, then 17, traveled to , during unrest in August 2020 and fired an AR‑style rifle, killing two men and wounding a third; he was later charged with five felonies but a jury acquitted him of all crimina...
shot three men on Aug. 25, 2020 — he killed two men, and , and wounded (three people shot in total) . The sources supplied document who was shot and the legal outcome, but they do not consistently ide...
The set of primary news excerpts and public-record fragments provided does not contain explicit, unequivocal statements of the of , , or ; the reporting focuses on ages, home towns, actions that night...
After ’s November 2021 acquittal on state criminal charges, multiple civil actions and related legal moves followed: federal wrongful-death and brought by the families of people he shot were allowed t...
, then 17, arrived in armed with an AR-15–style semiautomatic rifle and used it to shoot three people, killing two and wounding another . Prosecutors charged him with unlawful possession of a firearm ...
tied to have not been resolved on the merits, but judges have cleared at least one wrongful‑death civil case to proceed and the litigation has inherited the same evidence fights that roiled the crimin...
Legal consequences and investigations did follow many of the high‑profile deaths tied to the 2020 protests: Derek Chauvin’s criminal conviction was the clearest criminal accountability, multiple local...