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.

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    10 months ago

    I hate when Missouri ends up in the news for stupid things. I promise, we aren’t all idiots.

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      10 months ago

      Oh yeah? Name 3 things that is great about Missouri!

      No seriously, I’m asking because I have a friend who feels the same way, and I want to go, “Well, you still have (3 things here)” and cheer them up.

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        10 months ago

        Diversity, nature, laws.

        Missouri is a very relaxed state and I don’t expect people who haven’t lived there to understand how tame it actually is. Or they’re city-folk basing all of their knowledge on what happens in St. Louis (a very shitty city.)

        Texas and Louisiana are the real shitty states. But people from Texas are delusional enough to think it holds a candle to Florida, so they aren’t worth taking seriously.