The American president Joe Biden announced yesterday, Tuesday, that he had invited the African-American teenager who was seriously injured last week to the White House after being shot by the homeownerbecause he accidentally knocked on his door.

“Ralph, see you in the Oval Office when you’re feeling better,” Biden tweeted.

The parents of the 16-year-old Ralph Paul Earl he had been asked to pick up his 13-year-old twin brothers from a home in Kansas City at approximately 10:00 p.m. on the evening of April 13.

Ralph got the address wrong and went to the wrong house.

The homeowner, an elderly white male, shot the teenager through the glass front door, injuring him in the arm and head.

The 16-year-old is recovering “despite the severity of his injuries”, his family’s lawyers said in a statement.

The shooter, 84-year-old Andrew Lester, was charged Monday by the Missouri District Attorney’s Office with two charges, one of which carries a life sentence, Clay County District Attorney Zachary Thompson said.

THE Leicester surrendered yesterdayTuesday, to police and was later released after posting bail.

“Ostrich Camel”

“There are racial overtones to this case,” Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said Sunday.

According to Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, “pretending that this case is not racist would be ostrichism.”

The teenager “knocked on the door of someone who was clearly afraid of black people,” Lucas told CNN yesterday, Tuesday, adding that he hopes justice will take that into account.

Calling for the fight against guns to continue, Biden noted yesterday: “No parent should have to worry about their son getting shot because he messed up an address.”

In a similar case in her state New York A 20-year-old woman was shot to death in her car when she got confused and pulled into the parking lot of the wrong home, authorities said Monday.

The 65-year-old homeowner was arrested and charged.

Ralph Earl’s case caused shock and outrage across the US, with many celebrities expressing their grief over the incident.

“My heart broke when I learned” about this incident with the “16-year-old boy, who accidentally knocked on the door of the wrong house,” actress Halle Berry tweeted, urging the district attorney to act.

Demonstrations took place in Kansas City, while Earl’s classmates walked out of class yesterday to protest and demand justice.

USA: 330 million people with 400 million guns

Mayor Lucas also denounced the fact that the shooter was charged after the protests that took place and the statements of outrage from celebrities.

“Halle Berry shouldn’t have to make a post for someone to be vindicated in their case,” he stressed.

In addition, until yesterday more than 2.7 million dollars had been collected through the Internet in order to be able to Ralph Jarl to pay for his medical expenses and physical therapy that he will need.

Bloody shooting incidents are common in the US, a country of about 330 million people and about 400 million firearms.

One in three adults owns at least one gun and nearly one in two adults lives in a household where there is a gun.