The second man that Kyle Rittenhouse fatally shot — in a spree that left another man dead and a third wounded — had a criminal history including once threatening to “gut” his brother “like a pig” while holding a butcher’s knife to his stomach, Rittenhouse’s attorney told a judge Friday.
“[Anthony] Huber told his brother that if he didn’t start cleaning a room in his house he was going to gut him like a pig,” Rittenhouse’s lawyer Corey Chirafisi said adding that Huber did this while holding a 6-inch butcher’s knife to the brother’s stomach.
Chirafisi raised 26-year-old victim Huber’s violent past outside of a jury’s presence on the fifth day of the Kenosha County homicide trial for Rittenhouse, 18.
Huber allegedly sat back watching the brother and his grandmother clean while threatening to kill the brother if he stopped, Chirafisi said.
“Huber grabbed his brother by the neck, dug his nails in and choked him for approximately ten seconds,” the lawyer said. “He put a knife to his brother’s left ear and his brother felt it cut.”
“I’m going to burn the house down with all you f—kers in it,” Chirafisi told the judge Huber said.
Huber was criminally charged for the incident and took a plea deal on a strangulation and suffocation charge, Chirafisi said.
http://globalreportage.org/2021/11/06/kyle-rittenhouses-lawyer-says-attacker-once-threatened-to-gut-his-brother/
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