Ralph Yarl, 16, was shot twice after mistakenly going to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers, with Kansas City prosecutors now charging an 84-year-old man with first-degree assault.
Ralph Yarl, 16, was asked by his parents to collect his siblings from an address on 115th Terrace in Kansas City, Missouri, last Friday, but he accidentally went to a home on 115th Street instead where he was shot after ringing the doorbell.
The teenager was shot twice, once in the forehead and once on the arm. His family said he was now recovering at home having been discharged from hospital. Picture: Facebook "I wanted to help him, but they kept saying that we don't know where the shooter is at," said the woman, who asked not to be identified.
"We figured out then he went to the wrong street, which is no excuse for what happened," the woman said. A separate probable cause statement, seen by CNN, said that Lester was"scared to death" by the teenager and felt unable to defend himself at the age of 84. However, prosecutors said they did not believe the shooting was an act of self-preservation and there is no evidence so far to suggest Lester spoke to the teenager before the shooting, or that Ralph Yarl entered the house before being hit.
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