Lester had entered into a plea deal on Friday and admitted shooting Yarl in the forehead and arm. He pled guilty to two felony counts of first-degree assault and armed criminal action; Clay County ...

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.

Andrew Lester, 86, was awaiting sentencing on second-degree assault charges for the April 2023 shooting in which he shot Ralph Yarl when the 16-year-old showed up at his house believing it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

MISSION, Kan. — An 86-year-old Missouri 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 ...

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 ...

It’s been nearly two years since Andrew Lester, shot then 16-year old Ralph Yarl on his front doorstep, when Yarl went to the wrong home, by mistake. “My emotion is mixed, it’s anger and ...

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.

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 ...