Celebrities including Kerry Washington and Halle Berry condemn Ralph Yarl's shooting and call on fans to demand charges

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Celebrities including Kerry Washington and Halle Berry condemn Ralph Yarl's shooting and call on fans to demand charges
Ralp Yarl (left) and Kerry Washington (right).Faith Spoonmore/GoFundMe, Dimitrios Kambouris/ Getty Images
  • Kerry Washington and Halle Berry are speaking out after the shooting of Missouri teen Ralph Yarl.
  • Yarl was shot in the head after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell in Kansas City, police said.
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Celebrities including Kerry Washington, Halle Berry, and Questlove are condemning the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Missouri teen who was shot after ringing the wrong doorbell, and calling on their fans to demand the prosecutor bring charges against the homeowner.

On April 13, Yarl's parents had asked him to pick up his younger siblings, but when Yarl mixed up the address and rang the doorbell of the wrong house, the homeowner shot him in the head, the Kansas City Police Department said.

Police took the homeowner — whose identity has not been revealed — into custody, but released him 24 hours later as they investigate, the chief of police said at a news conference Sunday.

Now, activists and celebrities are demanding justice for Yarl, who remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.

"This innocent child is now fighting for his life," actress Halle Berry tweeted on Sunday night. "This could be your child. This should NOT happen. Please do something today! Join me and please contact Prosecutor Zachary Thompson... and demand an immediate arrest and bring the appropriate charges."

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Kerry Washington echoed Berry's plea for charges, tweeting on Sunday night that her fans should "demand that Prosecutor Zachary Thompson make an arrest and bring the appropriate charges."

And Questlove said the homeowner "needs to be arrested IMMEDIATELY. He should have been arrested the day this happened. "⁣

"A young Black boy HAS THE RIGHT to accidentally go to 115th Street instead of 115th Terrace WITHOUT BEING SHOT," the star musician wrote on Instagram. "Period."

Jennifer Hudson also joined in on Twitter, writing, "My God !!! Heartbroken for this young man and his family. Praying for his complete recovery."

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