Teen shot when he rang the wrong doorbell out of hospital. CNN

[applegrove]

Ralph Yarl is going to live.

[Jim__]

1. That's good news. Is he fully recovered?

[applegrove]

3. He'll improve they said.

[Nevilledog]

2. Article

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article274400460.html

No paywall
https://archive.is/u0Ltf

The father of a 16-year-old Kansas City student who was shot Thursday in the Northland said his son, Ralph Yarl, is home from the hospital.

Paul Yarl on Monday morning told The Star that Ralph, a junior at Staley High School, was released from the hospital on Sunday.

He is now back home with his mother, a nurse, who is taking off time from work to care for her son, Yarl said.

“He continues to improve. He’s responsive and he’s making good progress,” Yarl said.

Ralph spent three nights in the hospital after he was shot after going to the wrong home to pick up his younger brothers, who are twins, family said.

*snip*

[Fiendish Thingy]

14. I thought he was shot in the head?

Must have been superficial wounds for him to be home this quickly.

Thank goodness.

Now, for Justice.

[Nevilledog]

15. He's very lucky.

[Walleye]

4. I wonder in situation like this if the guy that shot him feels any sense of remorse

Or if he has been so brainwashed about guns he feels he did the right thing

[xocetaceans]

5. That guy probably long ago OD'ed on FauxNews. n/t

[Walleye]

7. I would say that is likely

[Turbineguy]

16. Maybe he can sue Fox for creating his fear.

[xocetaceans]

36. If only everyone who Fox (and the Murdoch family in their quest for riches) has damaged, could sue..

...Rupert and his spawn for those damages! Rupert would be reduced to a well-deserved penury.

[LakeArenal]

9. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.

We can’t know how it feels to shoot another human. Even for hateful people. If even the shooter is one.

[Walleye]

10. I know, I was actually glad for the shooter's sake that the boy survived

I was thinking of Steves Scalise who was terribly wounded by gunshots and it only made him more pro gun. It’s a sickness of some kind.

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. He has 1,000 protesters at his house.

He will be sorry.

[FarPoint]

25. Shooter I heard was in his 80's...

Not sure how his clinical or mental status will play out....maybe he is fit as a fiddle...I don't know. Hope to get more accurate information.

[leftyladyfrommo]

26. I hadn't heard that. He might be mad as a hatter.

His place was really kept up.

What a mess. Guns just bring nothing but bad trouble.

[Arthur_Frain]

33. I've read my Dostoyevsky

I’m on record that Rittenhouse eats a bullet sometime in his fifties.

Dunno how old this guy is who shot a 16 year old boy, but I guarantee eventually he will begin to have some sleepless nights over this. Might be already. Maybe eventually having the same end as Rittenhouse.

Human nature is immutable. No matter how much of a soulless individual one may seem to be, time will take its toll. Rittenhouse took two, and this ass in AL took one, and this is an event that ultimately, they will not be able to escape.

Crime & Punishment.

[Brenda]

39. Teen did not die. This was not in AL. nt

[Probatim]

11. It was noted he was seen cleaning his sidewalk of blood and glass after the shooting.

My guess is that he spent the last 5 years praying to gawd to give him an excuse to shoot someone - and now he's happier than a pig in shit.

That could just be my cynicism, but I also saw a guy get his gun out of his glovebox to shop at Walmart yesterday.

[Jedi Guy]

21. "I also saw a guy get his gun out of his glovebox to shop at Walmart yesterday."

And that's the sick cycle we're in, right there in a nutshell.

People who have guns (but shouldn't) use them to shoot up a Wal-mart. Everyone else is afraid of being in Wal-mart when that person starts shooting, so they take guns with them for protection when they go shopping at Wal-mart.

Sometimes that second group, the ones taking the guns out for "protection" if someone else starts shooting, get into arguments or confrontations and, in the heat of the moment or perceiving a threat, they pull out their gun and start shooting up the Wal-mart.

Round and round we go.

[Probatim]

27. Best part of that guy - he was like 6' 3" and 240 pounds and in pretty good shape.

I can't imagine why he needed it but I suppose he had his reasons.

[Jedi Guy]

28. Whether you're muscled like The Rock or built like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo...

Odds are pretty slim you can outrun a bullet.

The ubiquity of guns has us trapped in this cycle we can't break out of. We all know someone can start popping off rounds anytime, anywhere, for any reason or no reason at all. So some people arm up thinking that'll protect them. Odds are pretty slim there, too. But then when that moment of stress/confrontation arrives, their gun is right there, a simple and direct solution to whatever problem they perceive they have.

It sucks. It really, really sucks. I was recently in Arizona visiting family, and I really didn't like that almost-subconscious feeling of, "Shit might pop off at any second, so better keep a mental map of the nearest exits and hiding places." It was exhausting.

[Probatim]

35. I hear - I try not to think like that and sometimes have to actively think against it.

It's gotten worse since covid. I work from how now but have to go in the office a few times a month and I can feel my anxiety picking up just on the drive to and from work.

You just don't know how crazy some of these people are any more.

[Indykatie]

6. Great News!! His GoFundMe Has raised $1.4 Million Dollars

The money will cover any unpaid medical bills, college tuition and a planned gap year in West Africa before he begins college. I hope he has a full recovery. What I've read about him he's a wonderful and talented kid. I doubt anyone expected he fund to raise so much money. I was thrilled to donate.

[applegrove]

8. +1

[raging moderate]

12. Hooray for Ralph Yarl!

From what I read, I think this teen will use this money in the best way possible! What a great kid! He will be a great man!

[Gary 50]

18. Has Fox "News" started a GoFundMe for the shooter?

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. He goes to Staley High. That's an upscale area. There are

well off black and Asian families up there. But I'm so glad he's home and safe. He's a top.student so he can go to a really good school.

I seem to remember some racial thing happened at Staley High School awhile back. But schools in this district come down really hard on any racist trouble.

[Alwaysna]

30. My granddaughter graduated from Staley.

[Beetwasher.]

13. Thank Goodness

[OMGWTF]

17. Has the shooter been arrested? If not, why not?

This shit is not okay.

[Rebl2]

22. Clay county police and

prosecutor needs to investigate it more 🙄

[Kennah]

23. Some indications they are waiting on a statement from Ralph Yarl

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-yarl-shot-everything-we-know-so-far-rcna80070

Ralph Yarl appears to be the victim, by all accounts, but I'm sure the prosecutor wants to get statements and follow up statements to show consistency.

If the shooter gives a statement, and it keeps changing, that looks really bad for the shooter.

[ybbor]

24. This is fantastic news!

I pray he makes a full recovery physically! Lord knows he will be psychologically damaged for the rest of his life!

[LAS14]

29. Does anyone know who called the police or ambulance? Just curious. nt

[applegrove]

32. The neighbour. He went to a neighbour's house. She was warned not to go outside by police but

thought about it an went outside to give Ralph care till the ambulance arrived.

[Hortensis]

34. Oh, good to hear. Good for her.

[mountain grammy]

31. Thank goodness..

and I hope the kid's lawyers have locked down the assests of the shooter.

[uponit7771]

37. +1,

[Dorian Gray]

38. Thank goodness

This kid really has so much ahead of him, and I'm so grateful he survived this attack.

The man who shot him...... how do you see this kid's face and think it's a threat? Ugh. Hope he spends the rest of his life in prison.