A 16-year-old Black boy accidentally knocked on the door of the wrong house in Kansas City when he was trying to pick up his little brother, and a white man who opened the door then fired a shot into the boy’s head, according to the Daily Beast. The man–who has been released from police custody pending further investigation–then shot the boy in the head again, but somehow the boy, Ralph Yarl, was able to scramble to a different neighbor… who made him lay facedown on the ground before calling for assistance.
The shooter–who, have we mentioned, is a white man who shot a Black boy twice and was released from police custody–has not been identified. “The vast majority of cases to include violent crime involve the suspect being released pending further investigation,” Chief Stacey Graves said justifying the fact that she released the white man who shot a Black boy in the head, twice. “In this case, the prosecutor requires more information from investigators that would take more than 24 hours to compile throughout the weekend.”