Kyle Rittenhouse
American known for the Kenosha unrest shooting
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| February 2025 | Rittenhouse returned to the University of Memphis and spoke to about 40 people without interruptions, while protesters gathered outside. |
| 2024 | Rittenhouse is named outreach director for Texas Gun Rights, a state affiliate of the National Association for Gun Rights. |
| October 2024 | Several bands pulled out of the Shell Shock II charity music festival in Orlando after learning Rittenhouse was scheduled to appear. |
| March 2024 | Rittenhouse rushed off the University of Memphis stage after being confronted with protests and political questions. |
| December 2023 | Rittenhouse's book 'Acquitted' was released, coauthored with his defense lawyer Mark Richards and Michael Quinn Sullivan. |
| August 2023 | Rittenhouse forms the Rittenhouse Foundation, a Texas-based non-profit organization aimed at protecting legal rights. |
| April 2023 | Rittenhouse countersued Gaige Grosskreutz in response to the lawsuit. |
| February 2023 | Grosskreutz added Rittenhouse as a named defendant to his existing federal lawsuit. |
| January 2023 | A Texas brewery cancelled an anti-censorship rally featuring Rittenhouse. |
| 2022 | Rittenhouse appeared at Turning Point Young Women's Leadership Summit, where he was introduced as a man who would 'protect his family' and 'stand strong in the face of opposition from culture and evil'. |
| 2022 | Rittenhouse starts a gun rights YouTube channel and begins working on two new projects, including a video game and fundraising for potential defamation lawsuits against media companies. |
| 2022 | Kyle Rittenhouse moved to Texas after being acquitted of the Kenosha shootings. |
| November 2022 | Rittenhouse meets with Republican House of Representative members of the Second Amendment Caucus in Washington D.C. to discuss his experiences and answer questions. |
| October 16 2022 | Rittenhouse launched a YouTube channel focused on guns and the Second Amendment, with his first video featuring him firing handguns and an automatic rifle, and including gun advocate Brandon Herrera as a guest. |
| June 2022 | Rittenhouse claimed on The Charlie Kirk Show that he would be attending Texas A&M University, which was denied by a university spokesperson. |
| June 2022 | Rittenhouse announced on Twitter that he would be attending Blinn College, a junior college near Texas A&M, though a college spokesperson confirmed he had only applied and not yet enrolled. |
| June 23 2022 | Rittenhouse announced a video game called 'Kyle Rittenhouse's Turkey Shoot' developed by Mint Studios, intended to raise money for potential media defamation lawsuits. |
| March 2022 | Nordic Empire Games launched a video game called 'Acquitted' featuring Rittenhouse shooting zombies with 18 different weapons, sold for $5 on Steam. |
| February 2022 | A modified version of Oklahoma Senator Nathan Dahm's 'Kyle's Law' passes out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with a 7-3 Republican party-line vote. |
| February 2022 | Kyle Rittenhouse announced the launch of the Media Accountability Project (TMAP) during an interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight, aiming to hold media outlets accountable for their coverage. |
| January 2022 | Rittenhouse began considering writing a book about his 'unorthodox journey into adulthood'. |
| January 2022 | Rittenhouse was added as a named defendant to the federal lawsuit filed by the family of the deceased victim. |
| December 20 2021 | Kyle Rittenhouse appeared on a panel called 'Kenosha on Camera' at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest conservative youth conference, where he discussed his trial and Second Amendment rights. During the panel, Charlie Kirk described him as a 'hero to millions' and the crowd gave him a standing ovation. |
| November 2021 | Oklahoma Senate Representative Nathan Dahm introduced Senate Bill 1120, 'Kyle's Law', which would reimburse defendants found not guilty due to justifiable homicide. |
| November 2021 | Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces the Kyle H. Rittenhouse Congressional Gold Medal Act (H.R.6070) during the 117th United States Congress, proposing to award Rittenhouse the Congressional Gold Medal. |
| November 2021 | Rittenhouse is acquitted of all criminal charges in a high-profile trial, where he successfully argues self-defense for the shootings during the Kenosha protests. |
| November 2021 | Rittenhouse withdrew from Arizona State University after student protests and a rally called 'Killer off campus' organized by multiple student groups. |
| November 22 2021 | The hour-long Tucker Carlson interview episode featuring Rittenhouse aired, becoming the second-most watched episode in the show's history with 4.942 million viewers. |
| November 22 2021 | Kyle Rittenhouse met with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on the same day his Tucker Carlson Tonight interview aired. Trump described Rittenhouse as 'really a nice young man' and they were photographed together. |
| November 22 2021 | A picture of Kyle Rittenhouse with his publicist Jillian Anderson, a former The Bachelor contestant, was released and went viral on social media during his post-trial media appearances and publicity tour. |
| November 20 2021 | Kyle Rittenhouse was interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News immediately following his acquittal, discussing his future aspirations and views on the Black Lives Matter movement. |
| November 19 2021 | North Carolina House Representative Madison Cawthorn offers Rittenhouse an internship on the day he is found not guilty on all charges. |
| November 17 2021 | Florida House Representative Matt Gaetz publicly offers Kyle Rittenhouse an internship two days before his jury trial verdict. |
| October 2021 | Rittenhouse started taking online classes at Arizona State University as a non-degree seeking student, with intentions to transition to in-person classes. |
| October 2021 | Gaige Grosskreutz, the surviving shooting victim, filed a federal lawsuit. |
| August 2021 | The family of one of the men shot filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of Wisconsin against Kenosha police and county sheriff's departments. |
| September 29 2020 | Biden used images of Rittenhouse in a campaign video tweeted after the presidential debate, which Rittenhouse claimed defamed his character by linking him to white supremacists. |
| August 25 2020 | Kyle Rittenhouse, then 17 years old, traveled from Antioch, Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin during civil unrest and shot three men. He first fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum after being chased into a parking lot, then fatally shot Anthony Huber after Huber struck him with a skateboard, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz who was armed with a Glock. |
| March 2020 | Was furloughed from his part-time job as a lifeguard at the YMCA in Lindenhurst due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| January 2020 | Attempted to join the US Marine Corps but was disqualified by recruiters. |
| January 30 2020 | Attended a Trump rally in Des Moines, Iowa, seated in the front row. |
| 2018 | Left Lakes Community High School and transitioned to online school. |
| December 2018 | Started a fundraiser through Facebook for Humanizing the Badge, a nonprofit organization. |
| September 2017 | Began attending Lakes Community High School for one semester. |
| 2014 | Rittenhouse's parents separated. |
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