'If he didn’t have that gun, my son would’ve been dead,' Wendy Rittenhouse says on the eve of closing arguments in the case against her son, Kyle.
"A lot of people shouldn't have been there," Wendy Rittenhouse said of the nighttime demonstrations, part of a wave of anti-police protests in the wake of"He brung that gun for protection, and to this day if he didn't have that gun, my son would've been dead," she said.
, but he argued that he had little choice. Each of the shooting victims had physically attacked him, he said. Wendy Rittenhouse said she knew ahead of time that her son would testify, a rare move that exposes homicide defendants to probing questions from prosecutors.
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