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.
How is he being charged then? I don’t get it.
He killed her in her own home. You understand what castle doctrine is, right?
It’s her home. Castle doctrine only applies to people who have unlawfully entered your home. If you don’t want to be legally shot by someone invoking the castle doctrine as a defense, don’t unlawfully enter their home.