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.
I hate when Missouri ends up in the news for stupid things. I promise, we aren’t all idiots.
Oh yeah? Name 3 things that is great about Missouri!
No seriously, I’m asking because I have a friend who feels the same way, and I want to go, “Well, you still have (3 things here)” and cheer them up.
Food and national parks. It’s always food and national parks when you need to find something nice to say about an american state.
It’s like they think other places don’t have good food or pretty scenery.
The Italian food in STL is top notch, Lake of the Ozarks is fantastic, Mark Twain Ntl forest is gorgeous, the Katy trail linking towns and wineries from STL to Jefferson City is very special, and they never get wildfires or droughts :)
Hey, cool. I’ve seen Lake of the Ozarks mentioned online a few times but had no idea where it is (and hadn’t tried looking)
That’s amazing. Thank you!
Diversity, nature, laws.
Missouri is a very relaxed state and I don’t expect people who haven’t lived there to understand how tame it actually is. Or they’re city-folk basing all of their knowledge on what happens in St. Louis (a very shitty city.)
Texas and Louisiana are the real shitty states. But people from Texas are delusional enough to think it holds a candle to Florida, so they aren’t worth taking seriously.
Can you explain the diversity part?
I lived in New York and Miami.
Then I went to the Pacific Northwest and was drown in a sea of Caucasians who were excited to celebrate how diverse it is because their gov officials was a gay Asian woman, and a middle Eastern guy, and yet in a room of 100 people, 90 of them look the same. No where near what I expect diversity to be like.