Teen shot in head after going to wrong house to pick up siblings speaks out about experience
The Kansas City teenager who was shot after he went to the wrong house to pick up his siblings spoke publicly about his experience for the first time Tuesday, sitting down Good Morning America.
Ralph Yarl was asked by his mother on the evening of April 13 to pick up his twin brothers from their friend's house but accidentally arrived at the wrong address. After walking up the steps and ringing the doorbell, he waited for "a long time" until an elderly man with a gun opened the door, he remembered.
"He points [the gun] at me ... so I kinda, like, brace and I turn my head," Yarl said, adding that a pane of glass separated the two after the door was opened. "Then it happened. And then I'm on the ground ... and then I fall on the glass. The shattered glass. And then before I know it I'm running away shouting, 'Help me, help me.'"
"So then I go to the next house across the street. No one answers. And the house to the right of that house, I go there and someone opens the door and tells me to wait for the police," he said.
Yarl was shot in the head and in the right arm and suffered a traumatic brain injury. Andrew Lester, 84, was charged with one count of felony assault in the first degree and one count of felony armed criminal action. He pleaded not guilty on April 18 and was released on $200,000 bond.
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