Stop me when we get to the part where you’ve heard this before…..
…… A 23-year-old named Chris Lane was on a baseball scholarship. He was visiting his sweetheart, this time Oklahoma. He was jogging down the street, minding his own business, when a grou..
*Update 2* Here are the actual mugshots (Via CBS – Oklahoma)
(Left to Right) James Edwards 15, Chancey Luna 16, Michael Jones 17
Chancey Luna, 16, and James Edwards, Jr., 15, are charged with first-degree murder. Police say Luna is the alleged shooter while Edwards was a passenger in the car.
Michael Jones, 17, is charged as a youthful offender and faces one count of accessory to first degree murder. He’s also charged with one count of use of a motor vehicle in discharge of weapon. (link)
*Update* – In the attached article from the Daily Mail, the claim is made that one of the thugs was white. Here are their pictures – which one is white?
Australian TV/Media are the only outlets reporting on the accurate race of the thugs who shot Chris Lane. Why is that?
Here is James Edwards holding what would possibly be the murder weapon. A small caliber rifle. He was bragging about shooting on his Facebook page.
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OKLAHOMA – A promising Australian student, who was on a baseball scholarship in the United States, was allegedly gunned down by a gang of teenagers in what has been described as a ‘senseless attack’.
Chris Lane was returning from a visit to his girlfriend’s in the small town of Duncan in Oklahoma on Friday, when he was shot in the back by three teenagers and left to die in the gutter.
Chief of Duncan Police Department Danny Ford said the baseball fanatic, who was originally from Melbourne, was fired upon ‘for the fun of it’.
The 23-year-old was out jogging after visiting his sweetheart Sarah Harper, who lives nearby.
Chief Ford said: ‘He went by a residence where these three boys were, they picked him as a target, they went out and got in a vehicle and followed him.
‘(They) came up from behind and basically shot him in the back with a small calibre weapon, then sped away.’
Witnesses saw him stumble across the road and collapse in the gutter.
According to police investigators, one of the alleged killers had left a chilling message on Facebook prior to the shooting.
It read: ‘Bang. Two drops in two hours.’
The three suspects, aged 15, 16 and 17, have been arrested.
According to Sky News, the 16-year-old allegedly confessed to the killing saying it had been done ‘for the fun of it’. (continue reading)