Teen Kyle Rittenhouse used coronavirus stimulus money to buy rifle used in Wisconsin shooting

[Ohiogal]

The teenage gunman charged with killing two Wisconsin protesters this summer paid for the assault-style rifle used in the shooting with money he got from a taxpayer-funded stimulus program, he said in a jailhouse interview published Thursday.

Kyle Rittenhouse, who is too young to legally carry a firearm in the state unless he is hunting, had an adult friend buy the Smith & Wesson M&P 15 on his behalf just weeks before the Aug. 25 shooting, according to police.

“I got my $1,200 from the coronavirus Illinois unemployment cause I was on furlough from the YMCA and I got my first unemployment check, so I was like, ‘Oh, I’ll use this to buy it,” he told The Washington Post in the first interview since his arrest on homicide charges

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[LakeArenal]

1. What a hero. Just like is colleagues the Proud Boys.

[nebby70]

2. isn't that special???

[MagickMuffin]

3. I guess it's time to nail his adult friend

LOCK THEM UP

and throw away the key

[wcmagumba]

4. Charge the adult friend who purchased the gun...as a side wtf, he worked for the YMCA?

[maxsolomon]

6. the Y employs teens, yes. he could have been a lifeguard.

I'm a little surprised stimulus checks went to children, but makes sense if he had a job, even if it was probably part-time. must have felt like mad money to a child without rent or living expenses to pay.

his Straw-Purchases buddy has been charged, IIRC.

[LizBeth]

7. He was under 18 amd should not have gotten a 1200 stimulus. His parents should have gotten an extra

400 for him, right? I do not know how unemployment works for under 18.

[hedda_foil]

8. I thought it was an extra $600 per child but in any case you're right. He was too young.

[LizBeth]

10. you are right I think. Niece owes me 6k and with stimulus and the money for kids I figured she

could pay back 2400. She didn't, but she could have, lol so that would make it 600 per child. Thanks.

[Blue Owl]

9. I know they were giving out PPP loans, but I didn't know about the KKK loans