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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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To: I want the USA back

My ethnicity is Caucasian. It’s capitalized. When I reference
people as part of a racial group, I capitalize it, Black or White.


41 posted on 04/17/2023 9:22:10 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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To: Callahan

1) I don’t believe we’re getting the whole story. He just innocently walked up to the front door, and the evil smelly white supremacist honkey cracker just shot him in cold blood? Really? I’d like to hear more. And not from has-been actresses and other malcontents.

2) Yoshihiri Hattori. Look him up. He fccked around and found out.


42 posted on 04/17/2023 9:24:23 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Callahan

I blame the shooter/homeowner. You can’t just answer the doorbell and then shoot the guy who’s standing there for no reason.

But at the same time, I think this incident is the inevitable result of the failure of the criminal justice system to protect law-abiding citizens from the criminal element. In a war, there will inevitably be friendly fire. I blame the authorities for this.


43 posted on 04/17/2023 9:30:50 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Angelino97

First, the authorities did not say, which tells you that they don’t want you to know if he’s white because they are afraid of civil disorder. They would say if he were black. Second, the last paragraph of the story states that the victim’s family’s attorney says he was white.


44 posted on 04/17/2023 9:34:05 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: crusty old prospector

This gun owner needs to get hit with charges HARD. There is NO excuse for this shooting. Gun owners (like me) need to be in situational control of their weapon so innocents people not shot/killed. Reminds me of the female police chick who went into wrong apartment in her own complex then shot and killed the occupant. https://abcnews.go.com/US/amber-guyger-convicted-murder-wrong-apartment-killing-innocent/story?id=65978073 this one was in Dallas.


45 posted on 04/17/2023 9:55:06 AM PDT by thomastheglassexpert (thomastheglassexpert)
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To: TomGuy

He was really there to get some skittles.

Seriously, I think you are right about there being more to the story. If not, the shooter is in serious trouble.


46 posted on 04/17/2023 10:05:51 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: day10

Check


47 posted on 04/17/2023 10:31:57 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Callahan

We need all the details, since some may be missing.

If this is actually what happened with nothing more, the homeowner needs to be in prison.


48 posted on 04/17/2023 10:33:14 AM PDT by PATed
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To: Dan in Wichita

“Unfortunately for him, he belongs to the 3% of the population demographic that is responsible for over 50% of the violent crime in this country. The reality of life is everyone else is going to be wary of that 3%.”

No, that’s false.

Violent crimes are offenses of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
- see Footnote 4 of Table 43A https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-43

Of the 355,244 violent offenses charged in 2019, Whites were 59.07% of that total. Blacks were 36.41%.
- see https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-43


49 posted on 04/17/2023 10:35:44 AM PDT by Fury
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To: cuban leaf

The owners of the home are a couple in their mid 80s. Could have been a younger relative, but my guess is senility played a role.


50 posted on 04/17/2023 10:54:58 AM PDT by Callahan ( )
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To: Callahan
The interviews are cringe-worthy. Not a one of them have a calm or rational bone in their bodies. Not a single picture of the 16 y.o. who was shot. what are they hiding? Wheres the side of the homeowner?

imagine a couple going to counselling. The wife is fiscally conservative, makes a budget, runs the house, saves money. doesnt drink or run around, the husband cant keep a dime in his pocket and drinks at least a 6 pack a day and gets abusive. Would a decent marriage counselor say " you all need more hate a division? " that would be absurb, and that is what these people are saying" we want more hate and decord with our neighbors "

51 posted on 04/17/2023 11:01:37 AM PDT by Ikeon
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To: Callahan

The shooter was an elderly man in his eighties.

With a crime rate of 53 per one thousand residents, Kansas City has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One’s chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 19.

It was after 10:PM at night and someone was knocking on his door. He was probably awakened by the knock and scared to death. The police force in Kansas City is run by the state . It is a dangerous place.


52 posted on 04/17/2023 11:01:48 AM PDT by Eva
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Black Teen Shot After Going to the Wrong House to BURGLARIZE.

Occam’s Razor

53 posted on 04/17/2023 11:01:58 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: thegagline

Burglars usually ring the doorbell.


54 posted on 04/17/2023 11:16:33 AM PDT by Fuzz (. )
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To: Fuzz
Burglars usually ring the doorbell.

I’ve represented several burglars where this was their MO. Knock on the door, unsuspecting homeowner answers the door only to become a victim of a burglary

55 posted on 04/17/2023 11:19:16 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: Callahan; All
White elderly man in his 80s is revealed as homeowner who shot academically gifted black teenager, 16, TWICE after he mistakenly rang his doorbell in Missouri - as donations reach $1.2M for victim who remains in critical condition
56 posted on 04/17/2023 11:42:03 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Fury
Oh,okay, so 3% of the population is committing almost 40% of the violent crime, not 50%.

I stand by my original position.
57 posted on 04/17/2023 11:58:22 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: one guy in new jersey

Why do courts allow Crump to pro hac vice into their state so often and easily? There are legal and ethical limits that are being thrown aside for this race-baiting puke


58 posted on 04/17/2023 12:06:36 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: Callahan

“...rang the doorbell and was immediately shot by the homeowner who answered it.”

Very, very problematic for the shooter.


59 posted on 04/17/2023 12:18:07 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Dan in Wichita

Where did you get 3% of the population?


60 posted on 04/17/2023 1:07:57 PM PDT by Fury
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