Missouri Andrew Lester pleads guilty in 2023 the shooting of black teenager Ralph Yarla

86-year-old white man in Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded his guilt on Friday in the Second Degree attack in 2023 Shooting a black teenager Which mistakenly rang in the call, according to prosecutors.

Andrew Leicester agreed to a guilt agreement for less charges a few days before he is expected to face court Two crimes The attack of the first degree and armed criminal acts during the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarla, which was life-threatening injuries but survived.

The accusations are maximized by seven years in prison, compared to the maximum punishment of the first degree of accusation of 30 years of imprisonment. Lester’s sentence is scheduled for March 7. County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson said his team would seek five years of punishment.

Shooting attracted national attention and updated discussion on self -defense laws known as “stand on your land ” in several states. Laws allow a person to use reasonable powerand the deadly force to protect yourself from domestic malefactors.

“It doesn’t matter in this court. It doesn’t matter your skin does not matter how much money you have, who are your friends. We all hold up equally to account in this court, “Thompson told reporters on Friday Friday.

The message, he said, was that “self-defense has reasonable limits”-the limitation he claimed that Leicester had shipped.

What happened?

Then the junior high school, Yarl was about to pick up his younger brother from his second house on April 13, 2023, when he accidentally approached Lester’s house and instead called the door call. Police records show that Leicester shot through the door and hit the jar with his forehead and his right hand.

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Barel ran to several houses nearby. He was taken to the hospital with life -threatening injuries and was released in a few days, police reports.

Leicester, as reported, said police that he saw a tall black male, who stretched behind the closed doors, and thought that someone was trying to penetrate. He said to the police that he was “frightened to death” because of the size of Yarla and his older age. He was “noticeably upset and repeatedly expressed concern for the victim,” the police said in a report.

Leicester was reserved for an increased attack but was released in hours.

Ben Crump’s lawyers for civil rights And Lee Merritt hired a family of Yarla, criticized how the police decided the case, and Lester was arrested again after five days on April 18. Merritt called on the case of investigation as a crime on the basis of hatred, but prosecutors have never filed such accusations.

On Friday, Thompson, the district prosecutor, argued that there was a “racial component” in this case, but there was no evidence that the shooting was motivated.

Yarla’s family filed a civil lawsuit against Lester and the Association of his homeowners, but dropped the case In October.

In the lawsuit, they said that Yarl “suffered permanent injuries” and suffered losses and loss of normal life experience as a result of shooting.

N’dea Yancey-BRAGG, TAO NGUYEN and EDUARDO CUEVAS contributed to this report.

This article originally appeared on USA Today: Andrew Lester pleads guilty in 2023 Ralph Yarla shooting