OKLAHOMA CITY (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — An Australian man
attending an Oklahoma college on a baseball scholarship was shot and
killed in what police described Monday as a random act of violence by
three “bored” teenagers who decided to kill someone for the fun of it.
Christopher Lane, 22, of Melbourne, was found dead Friday while
visiting the town of Duncan, where his girlfriend lives. Three boys,
ages 15, 16, and 17, are in custody and face a court appearance Tuesday
afternoon.
Duncan Police Chief Danny Ford said Monday a woman called 911 after
she saw Lane stagger across the road and fall to the ground in the
south-central Oklahoma town of about 24,000 residents. Ford said Lane,
who was staying with his girlfriend and her family in Duncan, had jogged
past a home where the three boys were staying. He said the shooting
appeared to be completely random.
Autopsy results are pending. Ford wouldn’t say how many times Lane was shot.
Ford said the 17-year-old has given a detailed confession to police,
but that investigators have not been able to locate the murder weapon.
“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.’
“They followed him in the car to that area, shot him in the back and drove off,” Ford said.
He said the district attorney is expected to file first-degree murder
charges Tuesday, and all three will be arraigned at Stephens County
District Court. It wasn’t known if the three will be charged as adults
or as juveniles.
Sarah Harper, Lane’s girlfriend, told the Australian Broadcasting
Corp. that the two had only returned to the United States from Australia
last week.
1 comMENTS:
1) guns don't kill people, blacks kill people.
2) If any of those 3 animals is White I'm the Queen of England.
3) I can not imagine those creatures being tried as juveniles. Premeditated murder by those who should know better but genetically disposed to animal behavior. Put them down.
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