Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Andrew Lester appears in court to answer charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action, April 19 ...

Lester was charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting of then-16-year-old Ralph Yarl, who survived and is now a freshman at Texas A&M. Before Lester's trial was ...

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The 86-year-old man was expected to be sentenced on March 7. Andrew Lester, the Kansas City man who pleaded guilty to felony assault in the second degree for the shooting of Ralph Yarl, has died ...

Andrew D. Lester, 86, was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to felony assault in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl. By Mitch Smith and Julie Bosman Andrew D. Lester, the ...

Andrew Lester, the 86-year-old white man who pleaded guilty Friday to shooting Black teenager Ralph Yarl in the head after Yarl mistakenly rang his doorbell, has died, prosecutors in Clay County ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Andrew Lester, a man who pleaded guilty last week to second-degree assault after he shot Ralph Yarl, an unarmed teenage boy in Kansas City in 2023, has died, according to a ...

Andrew Lester, the Kansas City man who pleaded guilty last week to shooting Black teen Ralph Yarl in 2023, has died while awaiting sentencing. Lester, 86, had previously been facing charges of ...

Andrew Lester, 86, has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a black honor student who rang the white man's doorbell by mistake. KSHB Pool ...