A prosecutor says there was a 'racial component' to the white homeowner's shooting of the black teen.
A householder in the US state of Missouri has been charged with shooting a teenager who rang the wrong doorbell while picking up his younger brothers.
Mr Lester, who is white, allegedly shot Ralph Yarl, 16, who is black, once in the head and once in the arm in last Thursday's incident. The boy survived.A warrant has been issued for Mr Lester's arrest. It was not immediately clear if he had been taken into custody. "My message to the community is that, in Clay County, we enforce the laws and we follow the laws," said Mr Thompson. "That doesn't matter where you come from, what you look like or how much money you have."
Protests erupted throughout the city and Ralph's family has secured legal counsel from civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump.
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