{"id":976617,"date":"2021-11-06T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=976617"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:59:09","slug":"witness-man-shot-by-kyle-rittenhouse-had-round-chambered-in-handgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/witness-man-shot-by-kyle-rittenhouse-had-round-chambered-in-handgun\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness: Man Shot by Kyle Rittenhouse Had Round Chambered in Handgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwitness-man-shot-by-kyle-rittenhouse-had-round-chambered-in-handgun%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=976617&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A witness in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse told the court that Gaige Grosskreutz, one of the men who Rittenhouse shot, had a round chambered in a handgun at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/man-kyle-rittenhouse-shot-had-loaded-handgun-witness-testifies\">reports<\/a> that&nbsp;Jason Lackowski is the seventh witness called in the Rittenhouse trial. Lackowski came to the aid of Grosskreutz, the third individual whom Rittenhouse allegedly shot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 25, 2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rittenhouse allegedly shot and killed&nbsp;Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, then shot Grosskreutz while allegedly being chased by protesters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lackowski also testified that he heard the crowd yelling \u201cGet him!\u201d as they pursued Rittenhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse allegedly shot Grosskreutz in the arm and Lackowski \u201chelped apply a tourniquet\u201d to slow the bleeding. Lackowski also emptied rounds from a handgun Grosskreutz had in his possession and indicated there was a bullet in the gun\u2019s chamber.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18633362\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"43\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18633362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rittenhouse-trial-attorney-video-getty.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">KENOSHA, WISCONSIN \u2013 NOVEMBER 05: State witness Jason Lackowksi s questioned by defense attorney COREY CHIRAFISI during the morning sessions in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on November 5, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse is accused of shooting three demonstrators, killing two of them, during a night of unrest that erupted in Kenosha after a police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back while being arrested in August 2020. Rittenhouse, from Antioch, Illinois, was 17 at the time of the shooting and armed with an assault rifle. He faces counts of felony homicide and felony attempted homicide. (Photo by Mark Hertzberg-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On August 27, 2020, Insider.com&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/kyle-rittenhouse-who-shot-kenosha-protesters-was-obsessed-with-cops-2020-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that Rittenhouse, a resident of Antioch, Illinois, was allegedly armed with an AR-15. He allegedly \u201ccrossed state lines to stand guard outside businesses during unrest stemming from the\u2026 [August 23, 2020] police shooting of Jacob Blake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse allegedly shot three people, two of whom died. But the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/legal-experts-see-strong-self-defense-claim-for-rittenhouse\/\">notes<\/a> that Rittenhouse\u2019s defense claims he fired his shots in self-defense and \u201clegal experts say under Wisconsin law he has a strong case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>&nbsp;and the writer\/curator of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram:&nbsp;<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>. Reach him at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A witness in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse told the court that Gaige Grosskreutz, one of the men who Rittenhouse shot, had a round chambered in a handgun at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}