Ralph Yarl: police charge white man for shooting Black teen who had wrong address

A white homeowner has been charged with armed assault after he shot a Black teenager twice when the youth rang at his door by mistake to pick up his siblings from a play date in Kansas City, Missouri.

Andrew Lester, 85, is also facing a charge of armed criminal action after shooting Ralph Yarl, 16, twice on Thursday. Zachary Thompson, the prosecuting attorney, announced the charges late on Monday after intense local protests and widespread outrage over the police’s decision to briefly detain Lester before releasing him without charges. Yarl was recovering at home after being released from a Kansas City hospital on Sunday, where he was being treated for gunshot wounds to his head and chest, his family said.

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[Aden]

I once knocked on the wrong door (in the UK). I was offered directions and a cup of tea. Not 2 bullets.

[KnitzyKitzy]

Ringing a door bell should not result in being shot. Poor kid was just trying to collect his little brothers. Can’t believe it took him knocking on three houses door to get help. I hope he recovers well.

[TSC]

if we switch the races this wont make news

[Cruzeoc]

The guardian made this racial, I care less now

[jacko]

If it had been the other way around-
"Police charge man for shooting teen"- The Guardian.

[LowleyUK]

If you're going to capitalise the B in black, you should also capitalise the W in white.

[EIRE]

Why has the title of this report put a lowercase "w" on the word "white", but put an uppercase "B" on the word "black"???

[destroycommies]

Trying the door handle pushing the door looking through the windows the old man was scared to death when he asked who was there and got no answer i dont blame him thank you the guardian for telling us THE SHOOTER WAS A WHITE MAN and the INJURED PARTY WAS A BLACK MAN

[SCP]

>Lowercase white
>Capitalized 'black'
Yeah it's one of these stories.

[robjdtv]

Here in Britain the last time I knocked on the wrong door they thought it was hilarious and gave me directions.

[jjefferyworboys]

Would this even been a story if both parties had been the same race ?

[brownboyben]

I can't wait for the guardian to stop stoking a race war.

[ChrisPBaconn]

“Police charge man for shooting teen” would’ve done.

[fripp]

Didn't see any of these protestors when those black cops attacked that black guy!!

[lovelybitofbugle]

I knocked on the wrong house in England once and the lady gave me cake 😂

[bigoak]

Disgusting that the community had to DEMAND justice before the law decided to act.

[solidaritywithsolids]

I look forward to the Guardian article, full of self righteous outrage, about the 42 shootings that resulted in 8 deaths in Chicago last weekend.

[InceyWincey]

Why is the race important in this case, when it was left out of the report on the previous case?

[thanhnguyenminh]

The American dream: shooting random people ringing your door bell

[roifor]

apparently he was shot again when the surgeon wheeled him into the wrong operating theatre