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
      93·
      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
          6·
          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.

              • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
                13·
                8 months ago

                i am sure someone in a war torn country is saying “gee it sucks my family is getting killed, but at least im not in a shithole like the united states”

                calling the united states a shithole is an insult to actual countries that suck to live in, it just shows you probably dont know much about how bad it can get. there is a reason millions immigrate to the US

            • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
              22·
              8 months ago

              You think lethal violence is an appropriate response to a burglary? If you responded like that over here you’d be going to prison for far, far longer than the burglar would.

              You don’t need a gun, you need a shrink.