The grandson of the white octogenarian charged with shooting Ralph Yarl after the Black teen rang his doorbell by mistake said the “crazy” encounter “never should have happened.”
after the black teen rang his doorbell by mistake said the “crazy” encounter “never should have happened.”that he has often been in the same situation as Yarl, who mistakenly went to the wrong address in Kansas City to pick up his twin brothers.
He claimed he was “scared to death,” thinking someone was trying to break into his home when he fired his .32-caliber revolver at Yarl, whom he described as a “black male approximately 6 feet tall pulling on the storm door handle.” Police said Yarl sustained life-threatening injuries when he was shot, and hundreds of protesters rallied after the gunman, 84-year-old Andrew D. Lester, wasThe teen’s aunt talked about the terrifying incident on a GoFundMe page, which has raised more than $900,000.after prosecutors charged him with two felony counts.
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