Is Missouri’s “stand your ground” law applicable in last week’s shooting of a teenage Black boy who knocked on a white man’s door by mistake?
Andrew Lester, 84, was charged Monday with two felony counts of first degree assault and armed criminal action after shooting 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, a high school student who rang his doorbell by accident, Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson said at a news conference. Thompson said the shooting had a “racial component.”
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