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.
Stupid cracker.
Yarl must have a hard head.
There has to be more to this story than currently revealed.
BS alert is registering mid-to-high.
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.
Homeowner was wearing a MAGA hat and shouted “This is MAGA country” before firing. /s
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.
I would say there is a bit more to this story then reported.
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.
Except, when the victim is White and the perp is black, which happens multiple times a day, in the US.
Right, Benjamin?
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.
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.
Since when does a color get a capital letter?
So the shooter is a black guy.
Go to the link if you want to see rare footage of Angry Black Women shouting. s/
More context:
Investigators also will consider whether or not the suspect was protected within the Stand Your Ground laws, Graves said.
Missouri law allows a person to be held up to 24 hours for a felony investigation. At that point, the person must be released or arrested and formally charged. In order to arrest someone, law enforcement needs a formal victim statement, forensic evidence and other information for a case file to be completed, Graves said.
Because of the teen’s injuries, Graves said police haven’t been able to get a victim statement.
Mayor Quinton Lucas, who attended the news conference, said the police department understands the community’s concern that the shooting could be racially motivated. He said some members of the police department attended Sunday’s protest in the neighborhood where the shooting took place to listen to community members’ concerns.
“This is not something that has been dismissed, marginalized or diminished in any way. This is something that is getting the full attention of the Kansas City Police Department,” Lucas said.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump told The Star on Sunday that his Florida-based law firm has been retained by the teen’s family.
“You can’t just shoot people without having justification when somebody comes knocking on your door and knocking on your door is not justification. This guy should be charged,” Crump said.
Crump has represented the families in several high-profile cases including Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, as well as Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
He said the homeowner initially shot the teen in the head and then a second time after the boy fell to the ground. The family also has retained Lee Merritt, a Texas-based civil rights attorney who has previously represented the family of Cameron Lamb, who was fatally shot by KCPD detective Eric DeValkenaere in 2019.
Crump said based on what he was told by the teen’s family, the shooter is white.
“It is inescapable not to acknowledge the racial dynamics at play,” he said.
Homeowner sounds like a dumbass.
A very similar thing happened to my cousin (he’s white and it was an affluent neighborhood) It was late he was on the phone with his girlfriend going to her house and knocked on the wrong door a few houses down. The woman inside was home alone her husband was out of town, she got scared it was a break-in and shot through the door and killed him. Just a really tragic misunderstanding
I am a taxi dispatcher and KC is one of our largest fleets we service.
KCMO and even KCK have weird addresses that don’t exist anyplace else that I’ve encountered in 9 years of dispatching from SoCal to Baltimore/DC.
In KC, we routinely run across the following kinds of addresses, all different places:
114 E. Main Ter (Terrace)
114 E Main St.
114 E Main Dr.
114 E Main Blvd.
I routinely correct and fix trips placed by agents at the wrong addresses due to this problem. It’s absolutely maddening. There is NO city that has this kind of jazz that I dispatch. Often, they are only around the block from the correct address, and I wonder if this is what happened in this situation. However, sometimes they are clear across town. I can’t describe how many headaches it causes. Stupid system, for sure.
I don’t know any facts of the case, I’m only mentioning this because it is gobsmackingly common in KC. Impossible to find where someone is actually waiting.