Breaking news: An 85-year-old White Kansas City man was charged with two felonies after shooting a Black teenager twice, including once in the head. Ralph Yarl, 16, rang his doorbell after showing up to the wrong home to pick up his siblings.
Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Lee Merritt, who are representing Yarl and his family, said in athat Yarl “is alive and recovering” at home but that he has severe injuries. He was “shot twice and struck in the head and arm by an unidentified white male assailant,” the statement said, adding that Yarl was unarmed. The Washington Post could not independently verify those claims.
Lester told police he was afraid someone was trying to break into house and opened fire from his Smith & Wesson 32-caliber pistol within seconds of opening the door.Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves spoke to the media on April 16 after a Black teenager, Ralph Yarl, was shot and injured in Kansas City, Mo.
“There was a decent amount of blood going from our door to the street. It was horrible,” Dovel said. “He was bleeding out right in front of our mailbox.”Missouri’s “stand your ground” and “castle doctrine” laws do not require individuals to retreat when they perceive a threat. But they cannot act in self-defense unless there exists “a reasonable fear of deadly force or assault,” according to Kansas City attorney Kevin Jamison, who has defended clients using the law.
While the “stand your ground” area of law is complicated, Webster said, it is also wrapped within a gun-friendly culture and a firearms industry that sensationalizes self-defense.“When people think about self-defense, they are thinking about predatory acts of crime that threaten one’s safety and property,” he said. “But the laws are used in a much broader array of complex interactions between people, and sometimes people literally get away with murder because of this law.
Annie Gibson, owner of Fannie’s West African Cuisine in Kansas City, said she knew Yarl and his family because his parents are fellow Liberian immigrants who often came into her restaurant for spicy cassava leaf stew and other Liberian dishes.
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