With surprising fortitude, Cleo Nagbe explains where his son was shot: “One in the upper part of the left eye, in the left frontal lobe, and another shot in the upper part of the left arm.” Nagbe has given an interview to the American channel CBS in which she admits that she thinks the same as the medical team: that the fact that his son is alive is a true miracle.

Ralph Jarl, 16 years old, came to pick up her twin brothers at ten o’clock at night. The children, younger than him, were at a friend’s house. As Nagbe recounts, they had asked her to stay the night but she refused, indicating that her brother, Ralph, would come to look for them at ten o’clock at night. The young man had to ring the bell for his younger brothers to come out, with the bad luck that he got the house number mixed up and knocked on the wrong door.

opened the white octogenarian Andrew Lester that, seeing a black boy on the threshold of the door, he did not hesitate and shot without saying a word. In Kansas (Missouri) there is a law that allows anyone to open fire if he feels threatened. Lester has said that he was scared and that’s why he did it; but his statement has not prevented them from coming forward charges against him for criminal action. In the last few hours has been turned over to the authorities.

Ralph recovers at home

After spending a few days in the hospital, the doctors have allowed Ralph finished recovering at home. His mother is a nurse, his aunt a therapist and his uncle a doctor so they understand that he will be in good hands.

The paramedical team that treated him at first seriously feared for his life. In fact, It took up to 12 hours to get the bullet out of his head.. As Nagbe tells it, the shrapnel will be inside him for months.

Ralph won’t stop crying: “He does it in buckets. He does not stop reliving what has happened over and over again.”

protests in the streets

This new and inexplicable racist episode In the United States, it has caused thousands of people to take to the streets again asking for justice and concrete actions against this type of act. No one can explain that these things can happen so easily, simply because of the wrong door.

James Lynch, the first man to attend to Ralph when he, already injured, ran to safety, says that the young man did not deserve what happened to him. This is what he pointed out in his statement to the authorities. He has also added that in that neighborhood it is very easy to mistake your home.

Mother Ralph, who is thankful that her son is still alive, can’t understand it either: “He had to pick up his brothers and yet he was shot twice.”