Man who gave Kyle Rittenhouse his gun stole jewelry from Facebook Marketplace sellers in high school parking lot, police say

A onetime compatriot of Kyle Rittenhouse was precocious arrested connected transgression charges successful Wisconsin implicit an incidental that occurred successful neighboring Illinois, instrumentality enforcement successful some states say.

Dominick Black, 24, who hails from Kenosha, stands accused of 1 number each of operating a conveyance to fly oregon elude instrumentality enforcement, recklessly endangering safety, and equipped robbery, according to authorities successful Walworth and McHenry counties. The archetypal region is successful the Badger State; the 2nd region is successful the Land of Lincoln.

The suspect is being detained successful the Walworth County Jail connected the fleeing and endangerment charges; helium is besides taxable to a clasp connected an equipped robbery warrant retired of McHenry County, jailhouse records show. As of this writing, Black is awaiting extradition to McHenry County.

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The underlying incidental occurred during the aboriginal greeting hours connected Dec. 11, successful the parking batch of Harvard High School, successful the tiny municipality of the aforesaid sanction — which is situated astir equidistant betwixt the broader Chicago metro country and Milwaukee — authorities claim.

Just earlier 2 a.m., constabulary received reports of an equipped robbery, a press release issued by Harvard Police Department says.

"It was reported that the victims were pursuing the offending conveyance and its occupants but mislaid show of it aft crossing into Wisconsin," the property merchandise reads. "The Walworth County Sheriff's Office was provided with the fishy conveyance description."

Black and 2 different men are alleged to person acceptable up a gathering with jewelry sellers they met connected Facebook Marketplace. But alternatively of buying the jewelry successful question, the trio allegedly stole it portion brandishing a gun.

The alleged victims, a antheral and pistillate retired of Janesville, Wisconsin, accidental they agreed to a terms earlier gathering up with the trio astatine the schoolhouse parking batch connected North Jefferson "to implicit the transaction."

"During the meeting, the offenders displayed a firearm and stole the jewelry earlier fleeing northbound," the property merchandise goes on.

Across the border, Walworth County deputies pursued the suspects into yet different municipality wherever Racine County Sheriff's Office deputies utilized spike strips to disable their vehicle, constabulary said.

"The 3 offenders were taken into custody," the property merchandise continues. "The stolen jewelry and the firearm were recovered inside."

Along with Black, deputies arrested chap Kenoshans Blair W. Stiles II, 19, and Solomon A. Bankhead, 25, Harvard constabulary announced. They each look 1 number of equipped robbery successful Illinois.

Black antecedently recovered himself successful ineligible jeopardy for providing Rittenhouse with the weapon the second antheral used to sprout and termination 2 people — and coiled a 3rd idiosyncratic — during a protestation against constabulary unit and anti-Black racism successful August 2020.

On the summertime nighttime successful question, Rittenhouse killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber – and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz – with an AR-15 purchased by Black. Rosenbaum had been chasing Rittenhouse and lunged for a limb erstwhile helium was shot; Huber deed Rittenhouse with a skateboard earlier the shooting; Grosskreutz pulled retired his ain weapon. And, successful the end, a Kenosha County assemblage credited the shooter's arguable claims of self-defense.

Black, who testified connected Rittenhouse's behalf during his execution trial, initially faced 2 felony counts of intentionally giving a unsafe limb to a idiosyncratic nether the property of 18 causing death. Later, helium took a plea deal connected 1 number of contributing to the delinquency of a kid due to the fact that Rittenhouse was 17 years aged astatine the clip of the shootings.

In May 2022, Black was charged with 1 number each of attempting to fly oregon elude a constabulary officer, and operating an unregistered motorcycle, arsenic Law&Crime antecedently reported.

In February 2023, Black pleaded blameworthy to the fleeing number and was sentenced to 3 years of probation successful Kenosha County.

The suspect is presently slated to look successful tribunal connected Aug. 4, 2027, successful the equipped robbery case, McHenry County tribunal records show.