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Ralph Yarl reveals white homeowner told him ‘not to come here ever again’ before shooting him twice

Ralph Yarl, then 16, mistakenly drove into the driveway of 84-year-old Andrew Lester’s home in Kansas City, Missouri

The Independent UK

Kansas City teenager Ralph Yarl recounts being shot after he rang the wrong doorbell

Ralph Yarl tells ABC's “Good Morning America” that he never thought he would be shot even after the white man at the door he had mistakenly gone to in Kansas City pointed a gun at him

The Independent UK

Teenager walks at brain injury event weeks after getting shot in head for knocking on wrong door

Ralph Yarl has walked at a brain injury awareness event, just weeks after he was shot in the head for accidentally knocking on the wrong door in Kansas City, Missouri

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Ralph Yarl makes first public appearance since being shot in head after ringing the wrong doorbell

Teenager was shot after he mistakenly rang the bell at the wrong door while trying to pick up his brothers

The Independent UK

Lawyer cites 84-year-old’s health concerns amid push to seal Ralph Yarl shooting case

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The defense attorney representing Andrew Lester, the Kansas City resident charged in the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl on his doorstep in April, asked a Clay County judge to grant a protective order Monday as the 84-year-old continues to face harassment and fears for his well-being.

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Three years after Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, his mother reflects on the latest shooting of an innocent Black boy

Wanda Cooper-Jones speaks to Rachel Sharp about the progress made since her son’s death shone a spotlight on racism in America – but how the shooting of Ralph Yarl shows more change is needed

The Independent UK

Attorney wants court records sealed in Ralph Yarl shooting

The attorney for a Missouri man accused of shooting a Black teenager who mistakenly came to his door is asking a judge to prevent any new information in the case from being made public

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A meteorologist's Facebook comments about guns and kids alarm his audience

The founder of iWeatherNet, a Facebook page and website that posts updates about Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta-area weather, commented about being armed and impatient when a child rang his doorbell.

WEKU

Deborah Jane’s ‘Strange Fruit’ Film Revisits The Past To Fix The Future In Racial Reconciliation

Jane understands the importance of locating the problem to get to the solution.

Zenger

'Stand Your Ground' Laws Are Back in the News, but It's Not Clear Why

The duty to retreat from public confrontations has nothing to do with the cases cited in recent stories about seemingly unjustified shootings.

Reason

Who is afraid of Ralph Yarl?

There will be many more Ralph Yarls because that is exactly how (White) America wants it

Salon

For this Black mom, Ralph Yarl could have been her son

Being Black in a predominantly white American neighborhood can present many challenges

The Independent UK

Mike Pence makes excuses for shootings of Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis

The former vice president declined to directly condemn a spate of recent gun attacks on innocent bystanders

The Independent UK

A South Florida man shot at 2 Instacart delivery workers who went to the wrong house

Broward County State Attorney Harold F. Pryor called the incident "very disturbing" and said prosecutors would decide whether to file charges after reviewing the case.

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Melinda Henneberger: Fox News alert: Andrew Lester didn’t act alone, even if only he shot Ralph Yarl

We know now that Andrew D. Lester, the 84-year-old Northlander who shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, did not act alone.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Fistfights aren't gunfights. Knives don't go off accidentally. Yes, guns kill

There’s an old cliché in America’s gun debate that is so anathema to common sense — Guns don’t kill, people kill — that politically serious defenders of gun culture seldom even invoke it anymore. Like “thoughts and prayers,” it has become a dark and self-defeating punchline. Yet former President Donald…

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Why wasn’t man accused of shooting black teen charged with a hate crime? Experts point to gap in Missouri law

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In explaining his decision not to file a hate crime charge against the 84-year-old man accused of shooting Ralph Yarl, Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson said Monday he did not want to risk double jeopardy.

The Independent UK

Andrew Lester’s grandson comes to his defence and denies race played part in Ralph Yarl shooting

Daniel Ludwig told the Kansas City Star that his grandfather’s account of the events ‘hasn’t been reported’

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After Ralph Yarl shooting, Black people in Kansas City’s Northland keep fighting racism

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before Theo Davis moved from Washington, D.C., to help pastor a church in Kansas City’s predominantly white neighborhoods north of the Missouri River, a Black church elder called him with a warning:

Fortune

How 'stand your ground' laws promote racial resentment

Three shootings have occurred over the last three weeks in states that have stand-your-ground laws.

The Conversation

'Stand your ground' laws empower armed citizens to defend property with violence – a simple mistake can get you shot, or killed

In one key respect, Ralph Yarl was fortunate. The wounds the 16-year-old suffered after being shot twice on April 13, 2023, by the owner of the house whose doorbell he rang, thinking it was where he was due to pick up his two younger brothers, did not prove fatal.

The Guardian - UK

Fox News and its audience became hooked on lies – now they can’t break the habit

Evidence revealed in the Dominion case exposed the channel as the hostage of its viewers’ fantasy: a Trump election victory, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Los Angeles Times

Wrong-place shootings put 'stand your ground' laws in the spotlight

They were shot after pulling into the wrong driveway, ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car in a parking lot.

The Independent UK

Ralph Yarl rang the wrong doorbell and was shot by Andrew Lester. These key questions remain unanswered

As Ralph Yarl begins a long road to recovery and Andrew Lester faces the possibility of a life sentence on felony charges, Io Dodds explains what we still don’t know about the shooting

Reason

If You Want Fewer Shootings, Ask Politicians To Back Off

It took years to break our society; we’ll be a long time making repairs.

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