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It's herrrrrrrre. Yep, we've got Tuesday's close-out Social Heat for ya. Regarding the shooting of young bro-man Ralph Yarl, the Black teen who was "mistakenly" shot after ringing the doorbell of 84-year-old Andrew Lester, in Kansas City, MO, Lester turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday (04-18-23) and has been released on $200,000 bond. The old man reportedly told authorities he opened fire as soon as he answered the doorbell and observed Ralph grabbing an external door handle. He claimed he was "scared to death" by young Ralph‘s size and believed the minor was attempting to break in. Whatevea. We...

Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Quinton Lucas (D) said early Wednesday that the recent shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl “has everything to do with race.” Police say Yarl was shot twice by Andrew Lester, an 84-year-old white homeowner, after the Black teenager accidentally went to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers. “This defendant, in the probable cause statement, is indicated to have said that he was afraid of Ralph because he is a tall, Black man,” Lucas told “CNN This Morning” on Wednesday. “He thought he was in some way menacing or scary. I don’t think that was...

The grandson of the white octogenarian charged with shooting Ralph Yarl after the black teen rang his doorbell by mistake said the “crazy” encounter “never should have happened.” Suspect Andrew Lester’s grandson Daniel Ludwig told The Daily Beast that he has often been in the same situation as Yarl, who mistakenly went to the wrong address in Kansas City to pick up his twin brothers. “I’d go to visit my grandpa, and I would get lost on those streets,” he said. “It’s easy to do. They all look the same and everything.” The grandson added: “It’s just crazy. I wish...

President Biden on Monday spoke to the Kansas City teenager who was shot after he rang the wrong doorbell and wished him a “swift recovery,” the White House said. Biden talked to 16-year-old Ralph Yarl and his family on the phone and “offered his prayers for Ralph’s health and justice,” the boy’s lawyers said. The high schooler is currently recovering at home after he miraculously survived being shot in the head when he mistakenly rang the doorbell of a house where he believed he was supposed to pick up his younger twin brothers on Thursday. Prosecutors said the homeowner Andrew...

A White man in Kansas City is accused of shooting a Black teenager who rang his doorbell by mistake, renewing attention on Missouri’s self-defense laws after the man, Andrew Lester, 84, said he shot Ralph Yarl, 16, because he feared for his safety. Lester has since been charged with two felonies and said he was “scared to death” when the teen showed up at his front door. Yarl, who has been described by a family friend as quiet and respectful, was trying to pick up his siblings from a friend’s house and went to the wrong address. The shooting, which...

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...