Man who bought gun for Kyle Rittenhouse takes plea deal

The antheral who bought Kyle Rittenhouse an assault-style firearm erstwhile helium was lone 17 has agreed to plead nary contention to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a non-criminal citation, and debar convictions connected the 2 felonies he’d been facing.

The Journal Sentinel reports Dominick Black, 20, was charged in November 2020 with 2 counts of delivering a unsafe limb to a minor, resulting successful death. The 2 counts related to Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, the protesters Rittenhouse fatally changeable the nighttime of Aug. 25, 2020, successful Kenosha.

Black was 18 erstwhile helium purchased the firearm for Rittenhouse astatine a hardware store successful Rusk County successful May of that year. At 17, Rittenhouse was excessively young to legally acquisition the weapon.

In August 2020, Rittenhouse utilized the firearm to termination 2 radical and coiled a 3rd during protests successful Kenosha. In November, a assemblage recovered him not guilty, based connected his assertion of self-defense.

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Black was the archetypal prosecution witnesser astatine Rittenhouse’s trial, but the presumption of his ain charges were up successful the aerial aft Judge Bruce Schroeder agreed to propulsion retired 1 of the charges against Rittenhouse _ that helium unlawfully possessed a firearm arsenic a minor. The defence convinced Schroeder that an objection successful the instrumentality allows 17-year-olds to person rifles and shotguns, oregon astatine slightest near the instrumentality excessively vague to beryllium enforceable.

On Friday, Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger filed a projected plea agreement. It suggested Black would plead nary contention to a brace of citations, and wage a $2,000 fine, and the felony counts would beryllium dismissed.

A proceeding is scheduled Monday morning. Schroeder could cull the deal, oregon disregard the archetypal felony counts based connected his ruling astir the minors-with-firearms instrumentality successful the Rittenhouse case.