By now you’ve certainly heard about the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old who went to pick up his younger brothers but mistakenly walked up to the wrong house. His brothers were on 115th Street and Yarl mistakenly went to 115th Terrace. When he rang the bell, 84-year-old homeowner Andrew Lester fired his gun through the door hitting Ralph twice including once in the head. He was hospitalized and, fortunately, survived the attack. His story immediately became national news. Ralph Yarl is black and Andrew Lester is white.

For some on the left, this seemed to be a story that fit a particular narrative, not just about gun violence but about racist white people.

My God.

These people will not let us be. https://t.co/FlSMO4OjmI

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) April 17, 2023

You can guess who “these people” are. Shaun King was also quick to suggest if the races had been reversed things would be different.

Here’s what I know.

If a Black homeowner in Kansas City shot a white child under the exact same circumstances of Ralph Yarl, that Black man would’ve been arrested and charged with multiple felonies ON THE SPOT.

And police might’ve shot and killed that Black man themselves.

— Shaun King (@shaunking) April 17, 2023

Today I came across a story just like the one King imagined in his tweet. It happened in North Carolina. Here’s what took place according to local news reports. A group of children were playing basketball outside. The ball rolled into a neighbors yard and they went to get it. That neighbor was 24-year-old Robert Louis Singletary. He allegedly made threats to kill people and then opened fire striking six-year-old Kinsley White in the face and shooting her father in the back. Singletary is black and Kinsley White and her father are white.

Kinsley’s mother told [reporter Ken] Lemon she was outside too, and said she heard Singletary make a threat.

“He looked at my husband and my daughter and told them, ‘I’m going to kill you,’” Ashley Hilderbrand said.

Hilderbrand said Singletary kept shooting, missing repeatedly until he was out of bullets.

“I believe he would have got me and my husband too,” said Carolyn Hilderbrand, Kinsley’s grandmother. “He just run out of bullets.”

Singletary fled the scene and there is now a manhunt for him. He has a recent history of violence.

In December, Gastonia Police charged Singletary in the brutal assault of his 21-year-old girlfriend with a mini sledgehammer. They also said Singletary kept the victim inside his apartment and did not allow her to leave for over two hours. At that time, the man faced charges of assault with intent to inflict serious injury, kidnapping, and communicating threats. He was in the Gaston County jail on a $250,000 bond.

Hopefully police can track him down. But the larger point I’m trying to make is that in a country of 300 million people there are always going to be terrible incidents, including, unfortunately, those where children are shot. Those cases naturally attract a lot of media attention simply because they’re so shocking. But even so, not all cases get the same amount of attention that the shooting of Ralph Yarl is getting from the media and progressive commenters.

The shooting of Ralph Yarl looks inexcusable to me. So does the shooting of Kinsley White and her father. I’ll wrap this up by quoting Benjamin Crump, the attorney who is now representing Yarl. He was asked about that case and another case in which a girl named Kaylin Gillis drove up the wrong driveway and was shot.

“Race does not change the need for justice in either of these cases,” Crump, who is representing Ralph Yarl in court, told TND. “If you were outraged over the shooting of Ralph Yarl, you should be outraged at the shooting death of Kaylin Gillis.”

Crump is right. I’d just add that if the media’s interest is justice then the national media should be just as outraged by the shooting of 6-year-old Kinsley White by Robert Singletary. If so, this should be a national news story by tomorrow. Here’s a local news report on the incident.