A view shows Holton Community Hospital in Holton, Kansas, U.S., June 11, 2025. REUTERS/Arin Yoon
Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two protesters during a social rights demonstration in 2020, was hospitalized on Wednesday after a venomous spider bite.
The 23-year-old shared a photo of himself in the hospital, angling the camera to show where the alleged venomous spider had bitten him.
"The communists couldn't take me out and i'll be d---ed if I let a brown recluse take me out," Rittenhouse wrote in a post on X.
In August 2020, Rittenhouse drove to Kenosha, Wisconsin, as protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake were taking place. He was armed with an AR-15-style rifle and fatally shot two protesters.
More than a year later, in November 2021, he was acquitted of all charges, including homicide, in connection with shooting three men during those protests, two of whom died.
