A White man was ‘scared to death’ of Ralph Yarl. For Black boys, this isn’t new. [washingtonpost.com]

Ingrid Cockhren (PACEs Connection Staff) 4/24/2312:03 PM

^{Ralph Yarl, 16, was shot and wounded after mistakenly going to the wrong house to pick up his siblings. (Lee Merritt/Reuters)}

By Rachel Hatzipanagos and Timothy Bella, The Washington Post, April 19, 2023

When Ralph Yarl rang the doorbell of Andrew Lester’s Kansas City, Mo., home by mistake last week, the 84-year-old White man was “scared to death,” he told police.

The Black teenager was looking for his two siblings who were playing at a friend’s house. Instead, he arrived at Lester’s door — one block off course. No words were exchanged, Lester told police, before he lifted his .32-caliber revolver and shot through a glass door at Yarl, hitting him in the head and arm.

Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson said there was “a racial component” to Yarl’s shooting, though he didn’t explain why.

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