Cleo Nagbe appeared onCBS MorningsTuesday, along with her attorney, Lee Merritt, and shared an update withGayle Kingon how her son is doing following the incident on April 13.
“Ralph is doing considerably well,” Nagbe said. “Physically, mornings are hard. But his spirits are in a good place. I borrowed from his spirits. He is in very good hands.”
When asked about the extent of her son’s injuries, Nagbe shared that Yarl was shot once in the head and once in the arm. “Ralph was shot on the top of his left eye, I would say in the left frontal lobe,” she explained. “And then he was shot again in the upper right arm.”
The bullet was lodged above his eye for “up to 12 hours before it was taken out,” Nagbe said. “So that injury is extensive. And the residual effects of that injury is gonna stay with him for quite awhile.”
Ralph Yarl.Go Fund Me
Nagbe added that, based on Yarl’s pediatrician’s response, the lack of damage to his brain is nothing short of a miracle. “I talked to his pediatrician, and she said, ‘So the CT said that there is just minimal fragments of the bullet in his brain,’ and I said, ‘Yes.’ And she’s like, ‘How?’ and I said, ‘I don’t know how.’ And she’s like, ‘Bless God.’ "
Yarl mistakenly arrived at the man’s home — who has now been identified as 84-year-old Andrew Lester — intending to pick up his younger twin brothers from a friends' house. He arrived at N.E. 115th Terr. instead of N.E. 115th St.,Fox 4reported.
On Monday, Lester was charged with assault in the first degree and armed criminal action for shooting Yarl,KMBC Newsreported.
He claimed he feared for his life when Yarl approached his door.
“It sounds awfully familiar,” attorney Lee Merritt told King onCBS Morningsof Lester’s claim. “We know that Blackness in and of itself — just being Black — has been seen as a threat in this country, and so when we hear him say he feared for his life when the only thing he was being confronted with was a 16-year-old ringing his doorbell, it is obviously unjustifiable for him to decide to use deadly force against this so-called threat.”
“There’s some obvious racial elements,” Merritt said. “It’s a White shooter, it’s a Black boy, the White shooter perceives the Black boy as a threat, and we hear that a lot.”
Andrew Lester.Kansas City police department
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If convicted, Lester could possibly spend life in prison,CNNreported. Thompson said that felony assault in the first degree carries 10 to 30 years at a minimum, with a life sentence as the maximum.
source: people.com
