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Victims of shooting during Kenosha protests engaged gunman

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Posted at 9:14 PM, Aug 28, 2020
and last updated 2020-08-28 21:14:23-04

CHICAGO (AP) — The two men killed and a third wounded in Kenosha all directly engaged with the accused 17-year-old gunman.

Friends described the dead this week as an avid skateboarder and a Texas transplant with a young daughter.

Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, has been charged with fatally shooting two protesters and wounding a third.

Authorities have identified the two men killed as 38-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum and 26-year-old Anthony Huber.

The wounded man has been identified as 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz.