Deon J. Hampton is a national reporter for NBC News.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ralph Yarl, the Black teenager who survived being shot in the head after he rang the wrong doorbell nearly a year ago, is only now coming to grips with how the shooting has affected him. Sometimes, Yarl, 17, turns inward, ignoring phone calls and texts from loved ones. He skipped senior prom because he was afraid people would ask him about the shooting and he wasn’t sure how he would respond.
Yarl said he sometimes feels guilty that his shooting, which drew national attention, didn’t lead to a decrease in gun violence. “It just feels like a failure on my part,” he said. Yarl’s shooting wasn’t the only one in the past year that affected his classmates. There was also the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, where one person was killed and at least 20 other people were injured, and another near their high school during a basketball game, classmates said.
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