White Kansas City man, 85, charged in shooting of Black teen
Sixteen-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot twice — once in the head — after knocking on the wrong door after being sent by his parents to retrieve his siblings from a friend’s house
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Well, at least he didn't Khill him.
What a mess. The teen is recovering at home through sheer dumb luck I’m assuming. What was going through the 85yr old guys head to lead to this?
I’m not trying to justify this whatsoever, but I wonder what the old guy experienced previously to lead him to think that this was a justifiable action or reaction? He will spend the rest of his days in some kind of geriatric prison. Luckily the Teen will survive this as the old guy won’t. It’s ugly all the way around.
An 84-year-old man has been charged in the
shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson announced late Monday afternoon.
Andrew D. Lester faces charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting Thursday in a Northland neighborhood. A warrant for his arrest issued Monday calls for him to be held on a $200,000 bond.
Thompson noted that the assault charge is a class A felony. If found guilty, Lester faces no less than 10 years and up to 30 years or life imprisonment.
The teen was shot after knocking on the wrong door where he had been sent to pick up his younger twin brothers, his family has said. The shooting has stoked national outrage with
Vice President Kamala Harris as well as several celebrities weighing in.
“The defendant is charged with [a Class] A felony,” Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson said at a Monday press conference. “It’s the highest level offense in the state of Missouri.”
Earlier on Monday, it was revealed that there were signs warning against solicitors and trespassers at the home where Yarl was shot.
A small sign right above the doorbell Yarl rang reads,
“No Solicitors,” and another sign by the side fence states: “This property is protected by surveillance cameras.”
It remains unclear if Yarl read any of the signs when he arrived at the home around 10:30 p.m. The teen never crossed through the door, according to prosecutors.
The charges against the elderly homeowner came after Halle Berry and other celebrities
demanded justice for the shot teen.
The homeowner who shot a black teen in the head after he mistakenly rang his doorbell in Kansas City was charged with two felonies on Monday, officials said.
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Kansas City police said just before 10 p.m. April 13, Ralph was picking up his younger siblings at a home on N.E. 115th Terrace when he mistakenly went to a house on N.E. 115th Street.
Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson announced that Andrew D. Lester, 84, is charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action.
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I wonder if this is the same “Andrew D. Lester” as above?
On 17 April prosecutors announced that they had filed charges against an 85-year-old white man named Andrew D Lester for the shooting of Ralph Yarl.
The
Kansas City Star reported Ralph is being cared for by his mother, who is a nurse.
A GoFundMe set up to help with medical expenses for Ralph Yarl has surpassed its $2 million goal as of Monday, the
page shows.
It was started by Yarl’s aunt Faith Spoonmore just one day ago, according to the page history.
The fund description says that the account will be used to pay for Yarl’s “medical bills and therapy,” and additional donations will go toward “college expenses at Texas A&M, a trip to West Africa, and other expenses.”
The White man suspected of shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black teen, was released last week after being held for about one hour in custody because of a Missouri law regarding charges, said Zachary Thompson, the Clay County prosecuting attorney.
Andrew D. Lester was taken into custody just before midnight on April 13 but was released at 1:24 a.m. on April 14, according to police department officials
who spoke to CNN.
The man who allegedly shot and wounded a Black teen who went to the wrong home in Kansas City, Missouri, faces two felony charges, Clay County attorney Zachary Thompson said Monday. There was "a racial component to the case," he said.
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