MILWAUKEE – The man who bought Kyle Rittenhouse an assault-style rifle at the age of 17 has agreed not to plead guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, not to commit a crime, and to avoid convicted of two felonies he committed has faced.
The Journal Sentinel reported that Dominick Black, 20, was charged in November 2020 with two counts of delivering a dangerous weapon to a minor, resulting in death. Two counts related to Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, Rittenhouse protesters fatally shot on the night of August 25, 2020, in Kenosha.
Black was 18 years old when he purchased the rifle for Rittenhouse at a hardware store in Rusk County in May of that year. At 17, Rittenhouse was too young to legally buy a firearm.
In August 2020, Rittenhouse used this rifle to kill two people and injure a third during protests in Kenosha. In November, a jury found him not guilty, based on his claim of self-defense.
Black was the first prosecution witness at Rittenhouse’s trial, but his own charging status was made public after Judge Bruce Schroeder agreed to bring one of the charges against Rittenhouse – that he Unauthorized possession of a firearm as a minor. The defense convinced Schroeder that the law allowed 17-year-olds to own rifles and handguns, or at least made the law too vague to be enforceable.
On Friday, Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger filed a proposed plea agreement. It suggested that Black would not object to a pair of citations, and pay a $2,000 fine, and that the charge would be dropped.
A hearing is scheduled for Monday morning. Schroeder could refuse the settlement or dismiss the original charges based on his ruling on the minors with guns in the Rittenhouse case.
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