Teen gunman Kyle Rittenhouse claims he will be attending Texas A&M University — though if and when that might happen is very much in question.
Proudly donning a Texas A&M baseball cap during a visit with podcaster Charlie Kirk, the 19-year-old Illinois man who famously killed two unarmed protesters at a 2020 Black Lives Matter event in Kenosha, Wis., announced on Friday, “I’m going to be going there — it’s going to be awesome.”But according to the Dallas Morning News, a Texas A&M representative said, “He has not been admitted as a student this summer or fall.”
The university, located in College Station, Texas, has not responded to a Daily News inquiry as to whether Rittenhouse might be enrolled at a later date. The spring 2023 application window for freshman at the school runs from Aug. 1 through Oct. 15.
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The Media Accountability Project — an organization started by Rittenhouse to hold “activist media accountable,” according to its website — has also not responded for clarification on Rittenhouse’s claim. He has not addressed the situation on social media either.
“Beautiful campus, amazing people, amazing food,” Rittenhouse said in his declaration that he was headed to college.
Kyle Rittenhouse looks back as attorneys discuss items in the motion for mistrial presented by his defense at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (Sean Krajacic/)
Rittenhouse told Kirk he’s already checked out the school and even plugged an eatery he said he’d visited. He didn’t say when he plans to begin his studies.
During his 2021 homicide trial in Wisconsin, Rittenhouse told jurors he was “studying nursing” at Arizona State University. Officials at that Tempe school clarified after that remark in November that he was not enrolled at the school, nor had he even applied, though he was at one point enrolled in a non-degree seeking course online. Rittenhouse also testified that he graduated from high school online.
In this Aug. 25, 2020, file photo, Kyle Rittenhouse, left, with backwards cap, walks along Sheridan Road in Kenosha, Wis., with another armed civilian. (Adam Rogan/The Journal Times/)
A Wisconsin jury acquitted Rittenhouse on the grounds of self defense following the 2020 violence there that left two men dead and a third injured. The shooter has since become a celebrity on the conservative media circuit, including Fox News, where network star Tucker Carlson filmed a docuseries about Rittenhouse for that company’s streaming platform.