Man, 85, charged with shooting black teen who rang doorbell

PROSECUTORS in the US state of Missouri announced felony charges yesterday against an 85-year-old white man after he allegedly shot and severely wounded a black teenager who mistakenly rang his doorbell.

Ralph Paul Yarl, 16, was in critical condition after he was shot twice, once in the head, last Thursday night when he rang the doorbell at the wrong house while trying to pick up his twin brothers from a friend’s home nearby.