Ralph Yarl, a Black 16-year-old, was shot and wounded by a homeowner in Missouri after he mistakenly went to the wrong house to pick up his siblings, police said
Ralph Yarl, a Black 16-year-old, was recovering in hospital on Monday with gunshot wounds to the head and arm after he knocked on the door of the wrong house just before 10 pm on Thursday, according to his family's lawyers and police.
The teenager’s parents asked him to pick up his twin siblings at an address on 115th Terrace in Kansas City, but he mistakenly went to a residence on 115th Street where he was shot, police and local media reported. Lawyers for the wounded boy's family in a statement said Yarl was shot by a "white male assailant" and demanded “swift action from Clay County prosecutors and law enforcement to identify, arrest and prosecute to the full extent of the law the man responsible for this horrendous and unjustifiable shooting.”
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