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.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    Living with a handgun owner particularly increased the risk of being shot to death in a domestic violence incident, and it did not provide any protection against being killed at home by a stranger, the researchers found. - Guardian Article April 7, '22

    The relationship of Americans and our guns is such a weird, religious-level issue. Just bizarre people. And some of them are friends of mine. The people, not the guns.

      • harderian729@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        The more you try to ban guns, the harder they fight back.

        How are people living on farms supposed to defend themselves against robbers if they don’t own guns?

        This is what you city people don’t understand because you think city life is the only life that matters.

        • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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          8 months ago

          How are people living on farms supposed to defend themselves against robbers if they don’t own guns?

          Why is this only a problem in the US? You don’t think other countries have farmers? Or maybe that problem only exists in your head.

            • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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              8 months ago

              I don’t live in the US. I live in a rural area in Europe. It’s not at all a problem here. Probably only a problem in shithole countries like the US.

                • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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                  8 months ago

                  There are other shithole countries other than the US.

                  If you need guns just to be safe, you by definition live in a shithole.

                  • John_McMurray@lemmy.world
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                    8 months ago

                    What are you gonna tell me next, no ones ever broke into a rural property late at night in your country?