Thompson, the prosecutor, said Monday that there was a “racial component” to the shooting but did not elaborate. “When the president of the United States is trying to make a political statement over a very serious tragedy, it is very unfortunate.”
It’s a tragedy,” Parson told the Kansas City Star. "I don’t want some 16-year-old kid to be getting shot because he went to the wrong house - we just don’t want those kinds of things to happen. Mike Parson, who had remained silent on the shooting until Wednesday, accused Biden of politicizing it. “We’ve got to keep up the fight against gun violence.” “No parent should have to worry that their kid will be shot after ringing the wrong doorbell,” Biden tweeted. President Joe Biden spoke with Yarl on Monday, and on Tuesday invited him to the White House. The shooting outraged many in Kansas City and across the country. Some civil rights leaders and Yarl's family attorney, Lee Merritt, have urged the Department of Justice to investigate the shooting and for prosecutors to charge Lester with a hate crime, with Merritt noting that Yarl "was armed only with his Black skin." Christopher Kang, the president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Only about 10% to 15% of people who are shot in the head survive, said Dr. Yarl was shot at point-blank range in the head but miraculously survived the bullet. In Texas, two cheerleaders were shot after one of them mistakenly got into a car thinking it was hers. A 20-year-old woman was killed in upstate New York when the car she was in pulled into the wrong driveway. The case is among three in recent days involving young people who were shot after mistakenly showing up in the wrong places. Authorities say he shot Yarl, a 16-year-old honor student, first in the head, then in the arm after Yarl came to his door because he had confused the address with the home where he was supposed to pick up his younger brothers. The 84-year old man who shot Ralph Yarl when the Black teenager went to his door by mistake pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a case that has shocked the country and renewed national debates about gun policies and race in America.Īndrew Lester walked into the courtroom with a cane and spoke quietly during Wednesday’s hearing, his first public appearance since last week’s shooting.
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