Witnesses: Threat, lunge for gun from 1st Rittenhouse victim

The first man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was “hyperaggressive” that night, threatened to kill Rittenhouse and later lunged for his rifle just before the 17-year-old fired, witnesses testified Thursday. The testimony at Rittenhouse's murder trial came from two witnesses who had been called to the stand by the prosecution but gave accounts often more favorable to the defense in the politically polarizing case. Rittenhouse, now 18, is charged with shooting three men, two of them fatally, in the summer of 2020.

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