WAUKEGAN, Ill, — An Illinois judge says he will decide late Friday afternoon whether a 17-year-old accused of killing two demonstrators in Kenosha, Wisconsin, should be extradited across the border to stand trial on homicide charges.
Defense lawyers had indicated before the hearing in Waukegan that they would call witnesses, including Kyle Rittenhouse’s mother, to try to block his extradition. But they called no one and said they had chosen instead to focus on legalities of the case.
The killings occurred two days after a police officer trying to arrest Jacob Blake shot the Black man seven times in the back, paralyzing him.
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