Who is Andrew Lester? 85-year-old suspect shot black teenager Ralph Yarl in Kansas City
Mia Tucker
Updated on February 07, 2026
Andrew Lester has been blamed for shooting dark youngster Ralph Yarl
He was kept after the episode however excused by Kansas City police after under two hours
His whereabouts starting around Monday night were obscure
Andrew Lester has been blamed for attempting to kill a dark young person Ralph Yarl by shooting him in Kansas City, Missouri. As per district examiner Zachary Thompson, he has been reserved for first-degree attack, which conveys a greatest sentence of life in jail.
16-year-old Ralph Yarl is recuperating at home in the wake of being let out of the clinic on Sunday.
Who is Andrew Lester?Andrew Lester is a 85-year-old white man blamed for shooting a dark youngster. Following the occurrence on Thursday night, Lester was kept however excused by Kansas City police after under two hours.
The blamed is moreover accused of participating in furnished crime, a wrongdoing that conveys a sentence of three to 15 years in jail. His whereabouts starting around Monday night were obscure.
NEW: The Clay County prosecutor has charged 84-year-old Andrew Lester in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old Black boy in Kansas City who went to the wrong address to pick up his siblings last week.
The prosecutor announced that Lester has been charged with first-degree…
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Lester has a hunting permit enrolled in Missouri, as per a few public reports got, and he has recently lived in Texas, California, Arizona, and Virginia. The 84-year-old’s name was found in property records that matched Lester to the shooting site and uncovered that he had recently functioned as a specialist for American West Carriers.
Ralph Yarl’s auntie, Confidence Spoonmore, set up a GoFundMe page to assist with taking care of his doctor’s visit expenses. As per that, the episode occurred on Thursday night in a working class area of north Kansas City. Yarl was given the obligation of getting his twin more youthful brothers. Be that as it may, as he didn’t have a telephone, he wound up in the wrong area.
At the point when Yarl thumped on some unacceptable entryway, Lester surged out, shot Yarl in the head once, then, at that point, shot him once more. “The man in the home opened the entryway, looked at my nephew without flinching, and shot him in the head,” Spoonmore composed. At the point when Yarl tumbled to the ground, “the man shot him once more.”
Dissenters requesting equity for Yarl showed outside Lester’s home over the course of the end of the week, hollering “People of color matter” and shaking banners that read, “Ringing a doorbell isn’t a wrongdoing.”