health of their 16 year old child, ralph, who had everything going for him. he was a musician . he was honorable student. he had dreams of going to texas a and m university and then for simply ringing a doorbell and being profile. he is shot in the head. you say being profiled? how do you explain what happened here? where. if inexplicable, john berman. i mean, to have black people rang the doorbell and then have a white citizen. shoot him in the head. first and they re shooting him a second time. i mean, there is no way you can justify this. i mean, think about how ludicrous it says you have people who are delivering packages. uh will
general is sounding off on a violent humanitarian crisis right now unfolding in sudan. these stories and more coming in on cnn news, central. outrage in kansas city this morning after a black teenager was shot in the head when he mistakenly went to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers. this is 16 year old ralph jarl. he is currently hospitalized in stable condition . police said his parents asked him to pick up his siblings and an address on 115 terrorists. but instead he went to 115th street. and when he rang the doorbell, the homeowner shot him. the homeowner was taken into custody and after a 24 hour hold period was released pending further investigation. authorities so far have released few details. but the team s
substantiate you being. under attack that there s a threat is that threat reasonable and so clearly, the prosecutor believed that on the facts as he knew them to be based on an investigation that that was not applicable justification was not applicable and this would these would be the charges and areva martin what stands out to you and everything we just learned from the prosecutor. i think one of the things that stands out to me is that there is a racial component to this case. we ve been hearing that from a ralph s family. we ve been hearing that from the attorneys representing that family that they believe that this is racially motivated that this 85 year old white man purposely shot at ralph yarborough without any justification simply because he was a young african american boy who was knocking on his door and i think that s what s so tragic about this case. we ve seen these little amazing pictures of ralph just looks like an innocent kid. who whose only mistake was knocking on th
only imagine if the roles were reversed. and you have a black man shoot a 16 year old white chow but simply ringing his doorbell and the police took him in for questioning and let him come home and sleep in his bed at night. how much outrage with their be in america. now the police say that an arrest cannot be made until ralph gives a statement and more forensic evidence can be collected. what is your reaction to that? it is, uh. two americas as we ve said many times, john berman no party can tell us if a black man shot a 16 year old white teenager for ringing his doorbell that he would not be arrested that they will say oh, well, we got to go talk to the white 16 year old,
family say that they want police to identify the homeowner. cnn s camilo bernal, following this story for us, camilla bring us up to speed on the latest here. hey john. well thankfully, the family says that physically, ralph is doing well. but they also say that the very realistic future here is difficult because they say that mentally and emotionally, there is a long road ahead. they describe him as a friendly teenager who is well mannered who loves music. they say he plays a number of different instruments always has an instrument in hand. he dreamed about going to west africa and simply wanted to graduate high school like any other teenager. all of this is going to be so much harder now, just because he went to the wrong house. it s so important to say this look, you went to 115th street and he was supposed to go to 115th terrorists. that mistake could happen. to any person. and so that is why there