White man who shot Black teen Ralph Yarl to stand trial, judge rules
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A Missouri judge has ruled that Kansas City man Andrew D. Lester, who shot and injured Ralph Yarl after the Black teen went to the wrong house, must stand trial.
The shooting of Yarl earlier this year made global headlines and sparked widespread protests in Kansas City, Mo., after Lester, who is White, shot Yarl in the head and the arm when he rang his doorbell after mistaking the address.
Yarl, who was 16 at the time, had been sent to pick up his younger siblings from a friend’s house and mixed up “street” with “terrace” in the Northland neighborhood, leading him incorrectly to Lester’s front door. The 84-year-old’s lawyers claim that he was awakened from his sleep and terrified, believing Yarl to be an intruder, and shot him in self-defense.
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