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‘We were all Ralph!’ Hollywood star Jennifer Hudson angry over Ralph Yarl shooting
Apr
Jennifer Hudson, Halle Berry, Naomi Campbell, and other Hollywood celebrities have joined the growing national outcry over the shooting of high school student Ralph Yarl.
Ralph Yarl, 16, was shot last week after approaching the door of the wrong Kansas City home while going to pick up his younger brothers.
Despite being shot multiple times, Ralph has survived. As per recent updates by his father, the teenager underwent surgery successfully, removing bullets from his body. While he is out of the hospital, he is unable to speak.
One shot from a .32 caliber handgun went into his forehead, and another into his arm. Yarl was on his way to pick up his younger brothers on Thursday and went to Northeast 115th Street. The actual address was Northeast 115th Terrace.
Star Justin Timberlake called attention to the Ralph Yarl shooting on his Twitter.
“#RalphYarl accidentally rang the door of the wrong house while trying to pick up his siblings. For this, a man shot him in the head. Then shot him a 2nd time as he was on the ground. The man is free and the 16-year-old is fighting for his life in the hospital. This can’t be it,” Timberlake tweeted.
In a video posted to social media, Spoonmore said a man answered the door, shot her nephew in the head, and then shot him again after Ralph fell to the ground. An investigation is ongoing.
Much of the court of high-profile commentary has decided the shooting was motivated by race. Kansas City police have not identified the race of the shooter.
“I was a Ralph. We were all Ralph,” Questlove of The Roots, a Black musician and music producer, wrote on Facebook Sunday.
Comedian and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Leslie Jones was one of the first celebrities to tweet about the incident on Sunday. She retweeted Spoonmore’s emotional video and tweeted: “I want y’all to listen to this and tell me there is no racism in this country! This young boy smh I just can’t anymore!!”
Two hours later she followed up with this:
“What happened to this young man is the reason every black mother fears for their child! What the **** are (we) doing if we can’t protect our kids from these racist mfs!!”
Trailblazing British supermodel Naomi Campbell also used her Instagram account to alert her followers to the case, exhorting them to “say his name.”
“Saddened and sick to my stomach. When will this stop … heartbreaking,” said her post, which had nearly 300,000 likes as of Monday morning.
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