A Christian crowdfunding website has raised more than $100,000 so far for Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse, Newsweek reports.
Donations keep rolling in on GiveSendGo as other crowdfunding campaigns for Rittenhouse on GoFundMe and Fundly were taken down following his Wednesday arrest.
GiveSendGo, which bills itself as “the leader in Christian funding,” has received more than 2,000 donations for Rittenhouse’s legal defense as of Friday morning.
The 17-year-old of Illinois faces charges of first-degree intentional homicide for allegedly shooting three people during protests in Kenosha on Tuesday night, according to local law enforcement.
The Kenosha Police Department said two of the shooting victims died. The third victim was taken to a hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.
One of GiveSendGo’s founders, Heather Wilson, told Newsweek that the site was "committed to giving both sides of the political culture in our society an equal chance to let their voices be heard."
She added that the site did not plan to take the campaign down.
The people who created the campaign to raise money for Rittenhouse say they are friends of the family from Athens, Georgia.
In the campaign’s description, the money raised will fund Rittenhouse's legal defense, because "Kyle and his family will undoubtedly need money to pay for the legal fees."
"Kyle Rittenhouse just defended himself from a brutal attack by multiple members of the far-leftist group ANTIFA—the experience was undoubtedly a brutal one, as he was forced to take two lives to defend his own," the campaign description states.
The description states that Rittenhouse was "unfairly charged" with murder for an incident that "was clearly self-defense."
Protests have been ongoing in Kenosha since Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was allegedly shot multiple times in the back by police on Sunday.
According to Newsweek, Rittenhouse was expected to appear in court on Friday for an extradition hearing so that he could be sent from Illinois to Wisconsin.
Donors to the GiveSendGo campaign left comments showing support for his actions.
"As Americans, we must stand for what is right and Godly. I'm sorry (for him) that he had to take lives but it was to protect his own," one donor wrote.
"He did what the police should do—stop terrorists! Thank you Kyle. God bless you and your family," another donor posted.
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