The mother of Ralph Yarl, the Black teenager shot when he mistakenly went to the wrong Kansas City, Missouri, home to pick up his younger brothers, said her son is crying 'buckets of tears' as he comes to grips with what happened to him.
The mother of Ralph Yarl, the Black teenager shot when he mistakenly went to the wrong Kansas City, Missouri, home to pick up his younger brothers, said her son is crying "buckets of tears" as he comes to grips with what happened to him.
The shooting happened about 10 p.m. Thursday. Police Chief Stacey Graves said that Yarl's parents asked him to pick up his twin brothers at a home on 115th Terrace. Yarl ran to "multiple" homes asking for help before finding someone who would call the police, the statement said. Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson said Monday that there was a "racial component" to the shooting. But Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Alexander Higginbotham clarified in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday that "there is not a racial element to the legal charges that were filed."
The civil rights attorneys for Yarl's family, Ben Crump and Lee Merritt, said in a statement that Biden called the teen's family and offered "prayers for Ralph's health and for justice."
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