Andrew Lester, the Kansas City man charged with shooting Ralph Yarl in April 2023 after the teenager knocked on the door of the wrong house, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault charges in a 10 ...

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 ...

An 86-year-old Kansas City man 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 ...

Andrew Lester pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree assault in the Kansas City shooting of then-16-year-old Ralph Yarl, who miraculously survived being shot in the head and arm, according to reports.

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.