The MAGA octogenarian who in 2023 shot a Black Kansas City teenager in the head for the crime of approaching the wrong house died at the age of 86 on Wednesday, less than a week after pleading guilty to second-degree assault in the April 2023 incident in which he shot Black teen Ralph Yarl in the head for the crime of approaching the wrong house to pick up his brothers, ABC News reports.
Andrew Lester’s grandson described him as having become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways. And then the NRA pushing the ‘stand your ground’ stuff and that you have to defend your home. When I heard what happened, I was appalled and shocked, but I didn’t disbelieve that it was true. I was like, ‘Yeah, I could see him doing that.'” Yarl fortunately survived the incident without any serious permanent damage and is now a freshman at Texas A&M.