Missouri’s North Kansas City Schools announced on Facebook that Yarl, a bass clarinetist, was one of four students in the area to receive the esteemed honor.
Ralph Yarl is still
“So I back up. He points it at me. So I kind of, like, brace, and I turn my head,” Yarl recalled. “I’m thinking there’s no way he’s actually going to shoot, right? The door [isn’t] even open. He’s going to shoot through his glass door, and glass is going to get everywhere? And then it happened.”
Yarl said after being shot, he stumbled on some shattered glass but managed to get up to leave and get help. The teen detailed during an August court appearance that Lester shot him in the head, causing Yarl to fall to the ground before shooting him again in the arm.
Lester pleaded not guilty to allegations of first-degree assault and armed criminal activity.
In the June interview, Yarl also said he was suffering aftereffects, which included his mind feeling hazy.
“There are a lot of things going on inside my head that are not normal,” Yarl said, NBC News reported. “Sometimes my mind is just foggy, like I can’t concentrate on the things that would be easy for me to do.”
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