Ralph Yarl had to pick up his brothers at a friend’s house on the night of April 13, 2023. But the 16-year-old teenager took the wrong address. She knocked on the door of a wrong house and there a man over 80 years old shot her.
Now, the Clay County Attorney’s Office in Missouri is investigating the case of high school student Ralph Yarl with a “racial component“Well, the attack of Andrew Lester was too blunt to think it was an accident.
(By the way, the elderly Andrew Lester was arrested 2 times. The first time was for an interrogation from which he was later released, which caused the discontent of the neighbors of the county of Clay, in Kansas City, MissouriUnited States, who launched a protest in front of his house so that the authorities would not end up looking the other way).
The Ralph Yarl case
Back in the United States, the case of Ralph Yarl has generated the indignation and concern of the people for a lot of reasons: from racism to problem What do they have with the legislation on carrying weapons?.
All because the student was directly attacked by a man, without having exchanged any words and without Ralph Yarl posing a threat to him or the neighborhood.
This case It happened in Clay County, Missouri.where Ralph was supposed to pick up his twin brothers at a friend’s house.
Yarl was supposed to go to 115 Terrace, but he made a mistake and ended up at 155 Street, where he knocked on a house. It was 2 times that he rang the bell until Andrew Lester He shot him in the head and in the arm. In the end, Ralph made it out of there, walking through a couple of houses until he got help.
“This is a hate crime”
The African-American student was hospitalized in serious condition, although a couple of days after the attack He was reported in recovery and received a medical discharge.
However, his case has been denounced as a “hate crime” and racial because it was a direct attack.
Made by man who says he thought Ralph Yarl was breaking into his house…although activists have emphasized that the neighbor’s racism—based on Ralph’s skin color—greatly influenced his shooting with a .32-caliber revolver.
Now Ralph’s family demands justice and that the Missouri authorities investigate Clay’s neighbor.
Who in fact has been accused of first degree assault and armed criminal action in a country that is hurt by serious crises that have been going on for decades — such as racism, discrimination or the lack of control over the possession of weapons. And that has sparked movements like #BlackLivesMatter.
