Shooting of Ralph Yarl

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The shooting of Ralph Yarl occurred on April 13, 2023, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The 16-year-old boy was shot twice after ringing the doorbell at the wrong house. Yarl was trying to pick up his twin brothers and mistakenly ended up at the wrong address. Andrew Daniel Lester, an 84-year-old white man, was charged on April 17, 2023, with armed criminal action and first-degree assault, the equivalent of attempted murder in Missouri. The Clay County district attorney and Kansas City police chief stated that there was a "racial component" to the shooting. If convicted, Lester faced 10 years to life in prison. National media attention rose toward this first of four unrelated shootings across the US that week, which were all characterized by young people sustaining gunfire for making a harmless mistake. The other three were the murder of Kaylin Gillis in Hebron, New York, after she entered the wrong driveway; the shooting of two cheerleaders in Elgin, Texas, after they entered the...

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