'It could have been my child.' The mother of a Black teen who lives in the same Kansas City neighborhood as Ralph Yarl shares her fears and experiences in her own words — after Yarl was shot when he went to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers.
Kia Breaux, right, plays ball with her sons Jaden, 14, left, and John, 17, in front of their home in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, April 21, 2023. The recent shooting of Black teenager Ralph Yarl by an 84-year-old white man when Yarl mistakenly went to the wrong address in a nearby neighborhood, has shaken many Black residents in the predominantly white region of the city. Kia Breaux, right, plays ball with her sons Jaden, 14, left, and John, 17, in front of their home in Kansas City, Mo.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On April 13, the nightmare that I’d worried about ever since we moved into our neighborhood came true.
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