Missouri Teen Ralph Yarl Suffering From PTSD After Shooting [Video]

Ralph Yarl, the 17-year-old Black teen who was shot and injured after ringing a white man’s doorbell by accident, spoke out a year after the incident. As his shooter’s trial slowly approaches, the teen described how he still lives with the trauma of that awful night.

“It is a constant uphill battle,” the teen told NBC News.

The evening of April 13, 2023, Yarl went to a home in Kansas City to pick up his younger twin brothers. However, he ended up at the wrong house after mixing up the street names. Yarl told police when he knocked on the door, he was met by 85-year-old Andrew Lester, a white man, who was holding a shotgun behind the glass door and snared, “Don’t come back here.” 

Milliseconds later, Yarl told investigators Lester shot him through the front door, striking his arm and grazing his head.

Since that night, …