Jaylen Johnson charged with manslaughter after shooting death of his mother at their home’s back door in St Louis suburb

A 25-year-old Missouri man says he mistook his mother for an intruder before shooting her to death at their home’s back door.

Prosecutors have charged Jaylen Johnson with manslaughter and armed criminal action in connection with the shooting death on Thursday of his mother, Monica McNichols-Johnson.

McNichols-Johnson’s shooting death came less than a year after another shooting in Missouri saw Ralph Yarl, then 16, get shot on 13 April by 84-year-old Andrew Lester after ringing the wrong doorbell while picking up his siblings.

  • TonyStew@kbin.social
    41·
    10 months ago

    If they’re supplying them, they’re usually bullshit

    No need for hypotheticals here, we’ve got hard examples of stats & studies that either are or aren’t bs. Although the only bit I talk about on gun violence is from the GVA, but you’re welcome to call them BS if you wish.

    there’s a layer of murder on top of every crime

    At ~20,000/year, it’s 1 in 17,500.

    The point of the comparison isn’t to downplay gun violence, as should have been evident by how I’m arguing an equally-likely violent home invasion isn’t something to dismiss.