Mom Shot at by Tekle Sundberg Expresses Outrage
Mary McGuire, Fox 9, July 16, 2022
What started as a rally for a man shot and killed by Minneapolis Police quickly took a turn after the mother of two nearly hit by bullets while inside her apartment showed up to share her story on Saturday afternoon.
Arabella Yarbrough was cooking food for her children Wednesday night when she says Tekle Sundberg fired bullets into their home, nearly hitting them. Police responded and helped Yarbrough escape when according to police, Sundberg also fired at officers. That led to a six-hour standoff outside the building that lasted until MPD snipers killed the 20-year-old early the next morning.
Tekle Sundberg
“I literally had five minutes to live while he had six hours to choose life or death. The police stated they did not want to kill him,” Yarbrough told Fox 9.
She confronted activists at a protest for Sundberg and against police violence on Saturday. {snip}
Arabella Foss-Yarbrough, who survived the shooting from Andrew Tekle Sundberg argued with protesters to go home.
“He tried to kill me in front of my kids!…There’s bullet holes in my kitchen!—”
“—Not in you though!”
— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) July 17, 2022
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Both Yarbrough and Sundberg’s family say things could have ended differently if he was able to get the mental health support he needed. His parents, Cindy and Mark Sundberg, adopted Tekle from Ethiopia when he was just four years old.
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Along with their attorney, they empathized with the terror Yarbrough felt that night, but say their son should still be here.
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A GoFundMe page has been established to help Yarbrough. At the same time, a fundraiser has been created for Sundberg’s family.
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