Second victim in Kyle Rittenhouse shooting Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, identified by friends and family
THE second victim in Kyle Rittenhouse’s alleged shooting spree during a Kenosha protest has been identified.
Family and friends said Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, passed away from his injuries on Tuesday night after he was gunned down protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Rosenbaum is from Texas and moved to Kenosha within the last year, according to reports on social media.
A friend said he was shot in the head, reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
He is survived by his fiancée and a young daughter, the newspaper stated.
“May you forever be with the angels and rest easy bro. I love you!” his sister wrote on Facebook.
A GoFundMe page was set up by his friend Adriana Garcia to help his fiancée with his funeral and burial costs.
As of August 27, it has raised $4,058 raised of its $25,000 goal.
“I am raising money to help support my friend jojo,” the description stated. “He died last night in the protest for Jacob Blake.
“R.I.P TO BOTH,” she wrote, in reference to the other victim, Anthony Huber.
“His girlfriend and I are trying to raise money for a funeral and for him to be cremated. If you can help in ANY way PLEASE do.”
Huber was the first shooting victim to be identified after a gunman Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, allegedly opened fire onto a crowd of protesters demonstrating against Jacob Blake’s death.
Rittenhouse allegedly killed Huber and Rosenbaum and injured another man in the arm after spraying bullets at demonstrators, authorities said.
On Wednesday, the 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, was arrested and charged with first degree intentional homicide.
The Milmaukee Journal Sentinel noted that based on Wisconsin law, he is being charged as an adult.
The complaint stated that the teen says the teenager “fled the state of Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution for that offense.”
Rittenhouse was interviewed before two activists were killed during the alleged shooting spree and said he was “protecting people.”
He’s being held in the Lake County Juvenile Detention Center near Vernon Hills, reported CBS.
Rittenhouse was booked after he was filmed allegedly firing his AR-15-style rifle at protesters and brazenly walking past cops afterwards.
He was apparently allowed to walk past a swarm of police with his hands up and holding his semi-automatic rifle.
The lead up to the fatal shooting isn’t clear but police think it may have resulted from a gas station conflict.
Cops said “self-styled militias” were defending local businesses from looters but the sheriff didn’t confirm that the gunman was one of the armed citizens patrolling the streets.
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Last night, the first shots were fired just after midnight, as a group of protesters faced off police in riot trucks on Sheridan Road.
After being shot in the head, a protester was loaded into the back of an SUV and rushed to a nearby hospital.
Shocking pictures emerged of people tending to a wounded person during the vicious clashes.