He was shot in Kenosha, then received threats - a frightening pattern after high-profile incidents

[Judi Lynn]

Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 4 hrs ago

MILWAUKEE – Gaige Grosskreutz wasn’t even out of the hospital when his phone started blowing up. Shot point blank in the arm with an AR-15, he was the only person to survive a triple shooting at a protest condemning the shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha police in Wisconsin.

His family and friends — people who had never protested in Kenosha — got frightening messages, too. The online harassment made its way into their neighborhoods, with strangers showing up at their homes to find out "what really happened" the night Grosskreutz was shot.

“And that’s the thing that affects me, seeing the people that I care about be upset for me, scared for me," Grosskreutz said. "I just don’t understand the need to target people who weren’t even there.”

Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, who considered himself militia, has been charged with five felonies for wounding Grosskeutz and killing two other men, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber.

Huber's girlfriend, Hannah Gittings, also has received online threats, according to her friend Danielle Rasmussen, who sponsored an online fundraiser for her. On the fundraising site, people have donated $5 to gain access and leave a nasty message, then gotten the money refunded, she said. They've posted laughing emojis in reaction to posts about Huber's death and sent mocking texts to Rasmussen's husband.

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