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Friend who bought Kyle Rittenhouse his gun testifies that the teen was ‘freaking out’ after Kenosha shootings

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Updated November 2, 2021 at 8:31 p.m. EDT|Published November 2, 2021 at 7:31 p.m. EDT
Attorneys gave opening statements Nov. 2 in the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who is charged with killing two people and wounding a third in Kenosha, Wis. (Video: Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post)

After Kyle Rittenhouse fatally shot two people and injured a third during the unrest in Kenosha, Wis., last year, he called the friend who had bought him the gun.

“He was freaking out,” testified Dominick Black, the friend, in Rittenhouse’s homicide trial Tuesday. Black said Rittenhouse, then 17, seemed agitated and pale and said he had to open fire to protect himself from people trying to hurt him.