The plea came on the eve of Lester’s trial in Clay County, which was supposed to begin Feb. 18. He is instead scheduled for sentencing March 7.

Andrew Lester pleaded guilty to second-degree assault after shooting 16-year-old Ralph Yarl outside Kansas City, Missouri ...

Andrew Lester is expected to enter a guilty plea at a new hearing scheduled for Friday, which comes on the eve of the ...

The man accused of shooting a teenager who went to the wrong Kansas City house has entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge.

The man accused of shooting a teenager in the head on his front porch during a case of a mistaken address has pleaded guilty ...

Andrew Lester was originally charged with two felonies for shooting then-16-year-old Ralph Yarl when the teen mistakenly rang ...

An 86-year-old Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor ...

Andrew Lester entered a guilty plea to second-degree assault in a quick 10-minute court hearing Friday. Lester, 85, was ...

Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson discusses the court hearing where Andrew Lester pleads guilty to an amended second degree assault charge, a class D felony, in the shooting of Ralph ...

Andrew D. Lester, a Kansas City resident in his 80s, was charged with felonies in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a teen who went ...

A Kansas man pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in the 2023 shooting of a Black student who mistakenly rang his doorbell trying to pick up his siblings.