Australian college student shot to death just for ‘the fun of it’ by three teens in Oklahoma
Hey kids, when you’re bored and have nothing better to do, just go out and shoot people for the fun of it. According to the Daily Mail, one of the three teens was white and the other two were black. And according to KOCO, the mother of one of the teens said her son and his two friends were part of a “wannabe gang.”
3 TEENS SAY THEY WERE ‘BORED’, SO THEY SHOT AND KILLED AUSTRALIAN BASEBALL PLAYER WHILE HE WAS JOGGING
Christopher Lane, 22, of Melbourne, Australia, was shot dead Friday for no reason in Duncan, Oklahoma, where his girlfriend lives
Associated Press
August 20, 2013
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Australian baseball player out for a jog in an Oklahoma neighborhood was shot and killed by three “bored” teenagers who decided to kill someone for fun, police said.
Christopher Lane, who was visiting the town of Duncan, where his girlfriend and her family live, had passed a home where the boys were staying and that apparently led to him being gunned down at random, Police Chief Danny Ford said Monday. A 17-year-old in the group has given a detailed confession to police, but investigators haven’t found the weapon used in last week’s shooting, the chief said.
That teen and the others — ages 15 and 16 — remain in custody, and Ford said the district attorney is expected to file first-degree murder charges Tuesday. It wasn’t known if the three will be charged as adults or juveniles. They were to appear in court Tuesday afternoon.
“They saw Christopher go by, and one of them said: ‘There’s our target,”’ Ford said. “The boy who has talked to us said, ‘We were bored and didn’t have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody.”’
He said they followed the 22-year-old Lane, a student from Melbourne attending college on a baseball scholarship, in a car and shot him in the back before driving off.
Ford told the television station KOCO in Oklahoma City that one of the teens said they shot Lane for “the fun of it.”
“He didn’t deserve any of this,” Lane’s girlfriend, Sarah Harper, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “It’s heartbreaking that it was such a random choice those guys made that drastically altered so many lives in the process.”
Witnesses rushed to help Lane after hearing a shot Friday and seeing him stagger and collapse on a road in Duncan, a south-central Oklahoma town of about 24,000 residents.
“He was face down on the ground and he was shot in the back with a .22 revolver,” builder Richard Rhodes told Australian broadcasters near a roadside memorial at the scene. “I had another lady stop and we tried CPR on him. And he passed away right here.”
Harper said she and Lane had only returned to the United States from Australia last week.
Lane attended East Central University in Ada, about 85 miles west of Duncan. He started 14 games at catcher last year and was entering his senior year.
UPDATE: The two black teenagers, James Francis Edwards, 15, Chancey Allen Luna, 16, were charged Tuesday with first-degree murder, while the white teen who drove the car, Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, was charged with being an accessory to murder after the fact and with use of a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon. All three were charged as adults.
Now I’m waiting for Al Sharpton to express his outrage, not over the senseless killings by three thugs, but because the two black teens were charged with murder and their white accomplice was not. He can now cite this as further proof that ours is a white racist criminal justice system.
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