Calls grow for man who shot Black teen Ralph Yarl to be charged with hate crime

Homeowner, 84, already faces two felonies for shooting Black teen who knocked on wrong door to pick up siblings

A lawyer for the family of Ralph Yarl, the Black 16-year-old who was shot by a white man in Kansas City, Missouri, after ringing his doorbell by mistake, said the case should qualify as a hate crime.

“Ralph Yarl was shot because he was armed with nothing but other than his Black skin,” Lee Merrit told the Associated Press.