Authorities say Kyle Ritenhaus, an Illinois killer accused of firing on two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was released Monday from a Kenosha County jail after receiving million 20 million in bonds, officials said.
The returnhouse bond was posted Friday at 2 p.m., according to the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office Fees.
In a tweet on Friday, Rittenhouse attorney Lynn Wood said, “God bless everyone who helped raise F 2M cash bail to raise #FightBack.”
Wood shouted at actor Ricky Schroeder and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell to “put us on top.”
Later in the evening Wood tweeted a picture of Rittenhouse, along with other attorneys representing Teen, John Pierce and Schroeder.
“Thank you, all the donors. Thank you, all the patriots. Thank God Almighty,” the tweet said.
Kenosha County prosecutors have charged Rottenhouse, Antioch, Illinois, with fatal shootings of Joseph Rosenb and M and Anthony Huber during a protest in Ill Gust. They also accuse him of injuring a third man, Gage Grosscrewtz.
Wrighthouse faces a number of counts, including intentional homicide and illegal possession of a gun. His lawyers argue he was working in self-defense. The case has been a major issue for anti-apartheid activists this year, who are angry over the destruction of property during protests across the country.
In the morning after the shooting, Rittenhouse turned himself in to police. He was later extradited to Wisconsin and was released on 20 million bail.
Prosecutors have charged Dominic Black, 19, of Kenosha, with supplying the gun used in the shooting.
In a video obtained from the Antioch Police Department, Blake told police what Rittenhouse allegedly said to him on the drive after the shooting.
Blake told police Rittenhouse said he fired because people were attacking him and going to kill him.
“He said with a skateboard and then pieces of wood,” Blake said.
Faith, a 17-year-old sister, was at the same police station a few hours after the shooting.
“He was crying. He said I had to shoot,” he said.
Rittenhouse spoke in public on his first visit since his arrest earlier this week.
In a phone interview with the Washington Washington Post, Rittenhouse revealed that the gun he used in the shooting was purchased using money he received in an unemployment check during the coronavirus epidemic. Rittenhouse, 17, could not legally purchase the weapon, so he gave the money to a friend to buy it for him, according to both Rittenhouse and police reports.
“I got my $ 1,200 from Coronavirus Illinois Unemployment because I was on furlough from YMCA, and I got my first unemployment check so I was like,‘ Oh, I’ll use it to buy, ’he told the Post.
In his interview, Rittenhaus said he did not regret having a gun that night, saying, “I had to defend myself.”
“If I hadn’t, I would have died that night,” he said.
NBC 5 reached out to Rittenhouse’s attorney, as well as actor Ricky Schroeder, on Friday night, but we haven’t received a response yet.
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