5 days ago · LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — 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 the white man’s doorbell by mistake, in a case that shocked the country and renewed national debate about gun policies and race in the U.S.. Andrew Lester was scheduled to stand trial next week on …

1 day ago · Andrew Lester agreed to a plea deal for lesser charges just days before he was expected to face trial for two felony counts of first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the 2023 shooting ...

4 days ago · Andrew Lester pleaded guilty on Friday afternoon, Feb. 14, to one count of second-degree assault. The conviction carries a sentence of 1-7 years in prison and a possible $10,000 fine.

Andrew Daniel Lester, an 84-year-old white man, was charged on April 17, 2023, with armed criminal action and first-degree assault, the equivalent of attempted murder in Missouri. The Clay County district attorney stated that there was a "racial component" to the shooting. [ 3 ]

4 days ago · Andrew D. Lester, 86, had been charged in state court with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the April 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a high school student who arrived at the wrong ...

4 days ago · Andrew Lester, the 86-year-old white man charged with shooting Black teenager Ralph Yarl in the head after Yarl mistakenly rang his doorbell, accepted a plea deal Friday of up to seven years in ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Andrew Lester, a man who has garnered both national and international attention after police say he shot Ralph Yarl, an unarmed teenage boy, outside of his Kansas City home in ...

4 days ago · 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, was ...

4 days ago · Andrew Lester pleaded guilty to a second-degree assault charge, a felony, in Clay County Circuit Court on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 in Liberty, Missouri, in the case involving the shooting of Ralph Yarl.

4 days ago · The man accused of shooting a teenager who went to the wrong Kansas City house has admitted guilt in the case.Andrew Lester entered a guilty plea to second-degree assault in a quick 10-minute ...