He spent three days in the hospital before being released Sunday, Ralph's father, Paul Yarl, told the Kansas City Star. Officials said that Lester fired his gun through a locked glass door and shot Ralph twice, even though the teenager did not attempt to enter the home and no words were exchanged between the two. Lester told police that he thought Ralph was trying to break in and was “scared to death.”Īn arrest warrant was issued for Lester on Monday evening amid mounting public pressure to hold the alleged shooter accountable. Lester surrendered and was booked into jail on Tuesday afternoon.
The attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the Yarl family, called the charges “appropriate,” but told Yahoo News that his arrest was long overdue. “Had the roles been reversed - had a Black man shot a 16-year-old white citizen - believe they would’ve let him come home and sleep without him being arrested and processed.” “They let this white man go, who shot this 16-year-old teenager who only pushed his doorbell, and they questioned him for 20 minutes and let him come home and sleep in his bed at night,” Crump told Yahoo News shortly after the warrant announcement.
Kaylin Gillis, a 20-year-old woman looking for a friend's house in upstate New York, was fatally shot by a homeowner after the car she was riding in went to the wrong address, authorities say.
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