Closing arguments are set to begin Monday in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teenager who fatally shot two men and wounded another during a night of violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Rittenhouse, then 17, found himself in Kenosha on the third night of protests on Aug. 25, 2020, sparked by a white police officer shooting a black man in the back seven times at close range. The protests gave way to riots that ended in two deaths, several injuries, multiple arrests, and $50 million in damages.

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