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Black Teen Shot After Going to the Wrong House to Pick Up Siblings, Kansas City Police Say
NBC Connecticut ^ | 4/17/23 | AP

Posted on 04/17/2023 7:47:36 AM PDT by Callahan

A Black teenager was shot by a homeowner after mistakenly going to the wrong house to pick up his younger twin brothers from a family friend's house.

The Kansas City Star reported the 16-year-old boy, who family members have identified online as Ralph Yarl, rang the doorbell and was immediately shot by the homeowner who answered it.

Yarl was meant to pick up his brothers from a friend’s house on 115th Terrace. He ended up ringing the doorbell at a home on 115th Street, Faith Spoonmore, the teen’s aunt, wrote online.

A man opened the door, saw Yarl and shot him in the head. When Yarl fell to the ground, the man shot him again. Yarl got up and ran from the property, but he had to ask at three different homes before someone helped him, Spoonmore said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcconnecticut.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kansas; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: bencrump; faithspoonmore; guns; kansascity; racial; ralphyarl; shooting; virtuesignalalert; yarl
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1 posted on 04/17/2023 7:47:36 AM PDT by Callahan
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To: Callahan

Stupid cracker.


2 posted on 04/17/2023 7:48:28 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Callahan

Yarl must have a hard head.


3 posted on 04/17/2023 7:50:56 AM PDT by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: Callahan

There has to be more to this story than currently revealed.

BS alert is registering mid-to-high.


4 posted on 04/17/2023 7:51:15 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Callahan

Who does this? The story makes no sense. If you don’t want to answer the door, at least ask through the door what the visitor wants.

There has to be more to this story.


5 posted on 04/17/2023 7:51:20 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: TomGuy

Especially when Ben Crump is involved.


6 posted on 04/17/2023 7:51:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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That’s the tell


7 posted on 04/17/2023 7:53:08 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Callahan

Homeowner was wearing a MAGA hat and shouted “This is MAGA country” before firing. /s


8 posted on 04/17/2023 7:56:26 AM PDT by know.your.why (Be not eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to THE most boring conformity)
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To: Callahan

If this is in the Hickman Mills suburb, I can see this pretty easily.

It needs another ‘57 F5+ to clean up the mess there now.


9 posted on 04/17/2023 7:56:55 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: TomGuy
There has to be more to this story than currently revealed.

Yeah, my BS meter is pegged.

10 posted on 04/17/2023 7:58:16 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: Callahan

I would say there is a bit more to this story then reported.


11 posted on 04/17/2023 8:00:11 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: TomGuy

Yep.


12 posted on 04/17/2023 8:06:41 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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Police have not identified the shooter or his race. Information that officials have now does not point to the crime being racially motivated, but Police Chief Stacey Graves said that aspect remains under investigation.

13 posted on 04/17/2023 8:07:13 AM PDT by Bratch
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"“It is inescapable not to acknowledge the racial dynamics at play,”

Except, when the victim is White and the perp is black, which happens multiple times a day, in the US.

Right, Benjamin?

14 posted on 04/17/2023 8:11:24 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Bratch

Police have not identified the shooter or his race. Information that officials have now does not point to the crime being racially motivated, but Police Chief Stacey Graves said that aspect remains under investigation.


I think that a solid majority of law-abiding blacks get nervous when potential gang members ring their doorbells. Perhaps that is what your emoji means.


15 posted on 04/17/2023 8:11:32 AM PDT by Hieronymus
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To: Bratch

FWIW—the street and the terrace are only a block from each other. I suspect that the babysitter, and the neighbors a block over, and the 16 year old are all likely part of the same socio-economic group.


16 posted on 04/17/2023 8:14:56 AM PDT by Hieronymus
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“BS alert is registering mid-to-high.”

Yeah this is a set up for certain. I wanna know the details here. No reasonable person fires a weapon at someone calmly ringing the doorbell looking for his siblings at the wrong house.


17 posted on 04/17/2023 8:23:05 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Callahan

The story reads like the setup for a joke. I don’t know what went down here, but it wasn’t what is being described. Bad fiction.


18 posted on 04/17/2023 8:27:13 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: Callahan

Did he go “to” the house, or did he enter the house?

Once you enter, you’re entitled to every piece of lead that the home owner wants to give you. Period.


19 posted on 04/17/2023 8:27:56 AM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: crusty old prospector
Stupid cracker.

1. How do you know the shooter was white?

2. What makes you think you're getting the whole story?

20 posted on 04/17/2023 8:28:30 AM PDT by Angelino97
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