Jaylen Johnson charged with manslaughter after shooting death of his mother at their home’s back door in St Louis suburb

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.

  • TonyStew
    0•9 months ago

    the act of “home invasion” is fundamentally different in the UK and the US

    Yes, I alluded to this by rhetorically asking why US burglars are half as willing to break in while an occupant is home. Still wondering why that would ever be.

    turning “somebody stole my iPad” into “somebody stole my iPad and then shot me in the spine”.

    Household burglaries ending in homicide make up 0.004% or 1 in 25,000 break-ins, and with national firearm injury rates being roughly double homicide rates that should mean roughly 1 in 8,333 break-ins leave the homeowner injured or killed to guns. That would math to 108 households in 2021 with occupants killed/injured by guns in 2021, or over 1 in a million yearly odds. Compared to the near-identical odds between the 2 countries of being assaulted or having other violent crime done against you if you see the burglars (27% vs 26%), it’s a weird edge case to focus on while dismissing the entire collection of crime it’s a minuscule subset of.

    Also wild to see “you’ll be shot while complying” in this argument, normally it’s people saying anyone practicing self-defense thinks they’re Rambo and that they’d be better off just ascribing best-intentions to the assailant and giving them what they want.

    Again, the point of this isn’t to say that concern about gun violence is wrong or nutty, it’s to argue that concerns about violent home invasion are even less paranoid than that.

    • Flying Squid
      1•9 months ago

      That would math to 108 households in 2021 with occupants killed/injured by guns in 2021, or over 1 in a million yearly odds.

      You are being extremely disingenuous when you say that since you’re only counting household burglaries. And I’m sure you know it.

      The truth is that 2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history for guns, with 2023 close behind.

      Let’s look at some actual numbers.

      In 2021, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC. That figure includes gun murders and gun suicides, along with three less common types of gun-related deaths tracked by the CDC: those that were accidental, those that involved law enforcement and those whose circumstances could not be determined.

      In other words, the CDC doesn’t track all gun deaths.

      (CDC fatality statistics are based on information contained in official death certificates, which identify a single cause of death.)

      Meaning that even the gun deaths the CDC tracks are not a complete record of those types of deaths.

      In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958), according to the CDC. The remaining gun deaths that year were accidental (549), involved law enforcement (537) or had undetermined circumstances (458).

      https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

      And you would have us believe that only 108 of those happened in someone’s house?

      Also from that study:

      The U.S. gun death rate was 10.6 per 100,000 people in 2016, the most recent year in the study, which used a somewhat different methodology from the CDC. That was far higher than in countries such as Canada (2.1 per 100,000) and Australia (1.0), as well as European nations such as France (2.7), Germany (0.9) and Spain (0.6). But the rate in the U.S. was much lower than in El Salvador (39.2 per 100,000 people), Venezuela (38.7), Guatemala (32.3), Colombia (25.9) and Honduras (22.5), the study found. Overall, the U.S. ranked 20th in its gun fatality rate that year.

      But hey, a lower gun death rate than El Salvador, so there’s nothing to worry about.

      • TonyStew
        5•9 months ago

        You are being extremely disingenuous when you say that since you’re only counting household burglaries. And I’m sure you know it.

        I’m literally commenting on how the person above me claims American firearms ownership makes “the act of “home invasion” fundamentally different in the UK and the US.” by “turning “somebody stole my iPad” into “somebody stole my iPad and then shot me in the spine”.” Household burglaries is the context of the conversation.

        you would have us believe that only 108 of those happened in someone’s house?

        No, I am claiming that ~108 incidents (could be 1 or more victims per) happen by a burglar’s hands. You know that, you just said I’m being deceitful for limiting it to those parameters, and now you’re lying about them.

        the CDC doesn’t track all gun deaths

        Correct, and I haven’t cited CDC data. As I’ve said many times now, I’ve cited Gun Violence Archive’s numbers, whose sole mission is to catalog as high of numbers as they can. Their 2016 combined homicide & suicide stats exceed your source’s numbers at 38k. I’ve also been using the higher number of ~60k deaths & injuries from someone else’s gun per year instead of ~45k combined homicides & suicides.

        Because in a discussion of someone’s claim of “essentially zero” risk of harm from someone in a home invasion, the actual risk is currently very close to the widely-agreed-upon, internationally-lambasted, domestic-politics-dominating risk of harm from another’s gun. Or hey, we’ll count what you purposefully do to yourself as well and say it’s 2/3 of the way there.

        I really don’t understand how saying “home invasion isn’t a boogeyman, being harmed from it is as likely as gun violence” has been interpreted as “you’re saying gun violence is a boogeyman” other than everyone here taking the top comment at face value and losing all basic literacy when the circlejerk stops.