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Let's get straight to your need to know. Headlines. A Kansas City 16 year old has just been released from the hospital. This is four days after he was shot in the head for knocking on the wrong door. According to Kansas City police, Ralph Yall was on his way to pick up his younger twin brothers when he mistakenly pulled into the wrong driveway last Thursday night. When he knocked on the door, the homeowner reportedly shot him once he was on the ground. The alleged shooter took aim and pulled the trigger. Again, multiple outlets are reporting that the shooter is a white man in his eighties. While as you can see, this teen is African American Kansas City. Police confirmed the suspect was taken into custody on April 13th just before midnight and that he was released. Less than two hours later, the team's family set up a go Fund Me page and they've already raised more than $1.5 million for his health. But this is a developing story with growing political dimensions that we're going to keep covering and more troubling news about gun violence. A sweet 16 birthday party in Alabama turned deadly. Over the weekend, four people including the birthday girl's brother were shot dead. They've just been identified. You can see the names of those young victims on your screen right now. At least 28 others are heard. Police say it happened around 10 30 Saturday night. They still don't have a suspect or for that matter, a motive. And on Sunday, community members held a vigil to remember the victims. So George Floyd's killer, Derek Shovin tried to have his murder conviction overturned. But the Minnesota court of appeal said no, the former officer was convicted of second degree murder and other charges. His lawyers argued procedural errors and the cases high profile deprived Shovin of a fair trial. A three judge panel rejected that argument and upheld both Shovin conviction and his 22 a half year sentence in Massachusetts. More than 30,000 people took part in Boston's 127th marathon today. Evan Sheet of Kenya came out on top. Look at him go. This is his second consecutive men's elite race victory. His unofficial time is two hours five minutes and 54 seconds. And on the women's side, another Kenyon was victorious. Her name is Helen Obi. She was the first woman to cross the finish line. Her unofficial time is two hours 21 minutes, 38 seconds. Now this year is special because it's been 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Attackers planted two bombs near the finish line that exploded during the race. Three people died. More than 250 were injured. One man was convicted of the crime and has been sentenced to death. Police believe he carried out the attack with his brother who was involved in a gun fight with police and later died after being run over by the convicted killer and E cigarette makers Jewel and Altria agreed to pay Minnesota $100 million to settle a 2019 lawsuit. This lawsuit accused them of using aggressive and deceptive marketing to hook thousands of kids on E cigarettes. Almost all us states at this point have already settled cases with Jewel. In a statement. The company says it quote, settled with 48 states and territories providing more than $1 billion to participating states to further combat underage use and develop cessation programs. Did you know that poverty is the fourth largest cause of deaths in the US? This is according to a new study released just today. It falls just below the top three leading causes of death which are heart disease, cancer, and smoking. According to the study, poverty ranked more deadly than obesity, diabetes, drug overdoses, firearms and homicides. Researchers pointed to poverty as the cause of approximately 183,000 deaths in the United States for people 15 and older.