Biff_Poindexter
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"A teenager was shot and wounded by a homeowner after mistakenly going to the wrong home to pick up his siblings in Kansas City, Missouri, police said Sunday. Officers responded to reports of a shooting on the evening of April 13 and arrived to find a teenager who had been shot by a homeowner outside of a residence, according to Kansas City Police. The teen was taken to a local hospital, where he was in stable condition Sunday, police said. The teen was identified as 16-year-old high school junior Ralph Yarl, [was asked by his parents] to pick up his siblings at an address on 115th Terrace, but he accidentally went to a home on 115th Street, where he was shot, according to police.
The homeowner – who has not been identified – was taken into custody and placed on a 24-hour hold, then released pending further investigation due to the need to obtain a formal statement from the victim - The shooting fueled a protest in Kansas City on Sunday, with hundreds gathering outside the home where Yarl was shot, according to CNN affiliate KSHB. Yarl had been looking forward to graduating high school and visiting West Africa before starting college, where he hopes to major in chemical engineering, his aunt wrote in the fundraiser."
First of all, let's stop referring to him as a child or a kid...yea, he was 16, but if you look at him, you can see he was very tall and too imposing looking and scary to be considered a child...he was a man....and apparently, he showed up to the wrong door and was shot thru the door and then shot once again. Now if this was a real child, I doubt the homeowner would have shot a real child...but clearly, this was not a child and the homeowner had reason to fear for his life....what was Ralph wearing when he knocked at the door? Did he look menacing? We don't know what happened before the shooting...was Ralph trying to break into the home? Let's not forget that shooting that happened in Alabama -- by people who look just like Ralph..so of course the homeowner had reason to shoot.
Now some believe that the homeowner wasn't charged because they do not have Ralph's statement of what happened....so are you saying if this kid claims he "dindu nuffin" that we are supposed to take his word for it and charge an innocent homeowner for defending his home and family? I am sure there is more to this story than what the media is telling us....at face value, I will admit, it may be tough to convince a jury that you shot someone thru your door and then shot them again and decided not to call it in --- unless of course, you can prove that Ralph was a dangerous thug with a history of thug behavior. Right now they are treating him like he was a good kid, but we all know, most of these black savages are not good....as I said, just look at what happened in Alabama and Chicago.
