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.

  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You know what’s crazy? These tube things you can put in your pocket. They take a battery, you press a button and light comes out the front! Doesn’t even stop until it hits something you maybe wanna see. It’s nuts, I tell ya.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      Know what’s crazier? They sell these things you speak of with mlok attachments for (and yes I know they’re trying to ban handguards as “barrel shrouds”) handguards for (and yes I know they don’t like “assault rifles” either) your AR. And preventing this is literally the point of those.

      Not only are you right, there’s legit solutions marketed for this lol.

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      8 months ago

      Or just don’t own a gun because the chances of someone breaking into your house trying to harm you are unbelievably small.