The teenager knocked on the wrong door and was shot. An octogenarian was charged on Monday by the justice of Missouriin the center of UNITED STATES, announced the local prosecutor. He has seriously injured by bullets last week a black teenager knocked on his door by mistake. Andrew Lester, an 85-year-old white man, has been charged with two felony counts, one of which carries life in prison, Clay County District Attorney Zachary told a news conference. Thompson.
An arrest warrant was issued and his bail was set at $200,000. Sixteen-year-old Ralph Paul Yarl, who was shot in the head by the gunman, is recovering “despite the severity of his injuries,” according to one of his family’s attorneys, Lee Merritt, as quoted by ABC News. The teenager came to pick up his twin brothers from a friend on April 13 in Kansas City, a large metropolis of the Missouri, when he rang the wrong doorbell of a house. His landlord shot the teenager through a glass door, his aunt, Faith Spoonmoore, said.
President Joe Biden’s call
She described Ralph Paul Yarl as a smart, friendly kid with dreams of studying chemical engineering. “The information we currently have does not say that [l’acte] was racist in nature, the investigation is still ongoing. But as chief of police, I recognize the racial components to this case,” Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said Sunday at a press conference.
This case caused a stir across the country. President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with the teenager on Monday, and “shared his hope for a speedy recovery,” the White House said. Protesters gathered Sunday outside the home where the teenager was injured and demanded that the perpetrator of the shootings be tried for a racist crime, reported KCUR, a Kansas City radio station.
Frequent dramas
“My heart was completely broken when I learned” the fate of the teenager, had tweeted the actress Halle Berry, calling on the prosecutor to act. Deadly shootings occur regularly in the United States, a country of approximately 330 million people and replete with approximately 400 million firearms.
In the state of New York, on the east coast, authorities announced on Monday that a 20-year-old woman was shot and killed while driving her car after she turned into the driveway of a house by mistake. The 65-year-old homeowner, who allegedly fired the shots, was arrested on Monday and charged with non-premeditated murder, the county sheriff said. Washington during a press conference.
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