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.
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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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