Andrew Lester entered his plea in a Missouri court hearing on Friday. Andrew Lester, the Kansas City man charged with shooting Ralph Yarl in April 2023 after the teenager knocked on the door of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ralph Yarl walks to the Clay County Courthouse to attend a hearing for Andrew Lester, who pleaded guilty in ...

An 86-year-old Kansas City man pleaded guilty Friday to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang his doorbell by mistake. Andrew Lester, who is White ...

KANSAS CITY (KCTV/Gray News) - A homeowner has taken a plea deal in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager, in a case that garnered national attention and renewed debate on self-defense ...

KANSAS CITY (KCTV/Gray News) - A homeowner has taken a plea deal in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager, in a case that garnered national attention and renewed debate on self-defense, gun ...

Ralph Yarl walks to the Clay County, Missouri, Courthouse to attend a hearing Friday for Andrew Lester, the 86-year-old man who shot Yarl in 2023 after he mistakenly knocked on Lester's door.

Then a high school junior, Yarl was going to pick up his younger brother from a friend’s house on April 13, 2023, when he accidentally approached Lester’s house and rang the doorbell instead.

14, for a hearing regarding the April 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, the Clay County Prosecutor's Office announced, just days before he was set to stand trial. Lester, 85, was accused of shooting an ...