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.

  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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    6 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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        6 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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          6 months ago

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