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.

  • harderian729@lemmy.world
    36·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
      42·
      10 months ago

      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.