Prosecutors charged an 84-year-old white Kansas City man with two felonies in the shooting of a Black teenager who was wounded after walking up to the wrong house when going to pick up his younger twin brothers
Ralph Yarl, a Black 16-year-old who was shot and wounded by a homeowner after mistakenly going to the wrong house to pick up his siblings, holds a bass clarinet in this picture obtained from social media. Lee Merritt/via REUTERS
"I can tell you there was a racial component to the case," Clay County prosecutor Zachary Thompson told a news conference, without providing further details. An arrest warrant had been issued for Lester with bond set at $200,000, but as of 5 p.m. CDT he was not in custody, the prosecutor said.
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