Article 6AXNS ‘Buckets of tears’: mother of Black teen shot after going to wrong address speaks

‘Buckets of tears’: mother of Black teen shot after going to wrong address speaks

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Gloria Oladipo
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Cleo Nagbe speaks out after white man charged with Missouri's equivalent for attempted murder for shooting Ralph Yarl

The mother of Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who was shot by a white man after ringing the man's doorbell, says that her son has been mentally replaying the shooting over and over".

Cleo Nagbe says that her son is still facing physical challenges from last week's attack, when Andrew Lester, a white Kansas City resident, shot Yarl twice, once in the head and once in the arm, after the 16-year-old went to a mistaken address to pick up his siblings.

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