Christopher Lane, Australian baseball player, killed by "bored" Okla. teens, police say

CBS/ AP ^ | 20 August 2013 | Iris Carreras

[Lorianne]

An Australian baseball player out for a jog in an Oklahoma neighborhood was shot and killed last week by three "bored" teenagers who decided to kill someone for fun, police said.

PICTURES: Australian baseball player fatally shot in Okla.

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, Ford 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 are scheduled 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.'"

[x1stcav]

Damned Amish Yutes out of control again?

[John Valentine]

Works for me, as long as the anesthetic is weak.

[Gator113]

I was raised in the 50s. I miss those wonderful days.

[montag813]

"Not racial" said the idiot Chief of Police.

So why didn't these bored maggots kill another Black youth in their own neighborhood?

[jonascord]

Consider this:
Charles Starkweather was sentenced on 23 May, 1958. He fried 25 June, 1959. That's 13 months. They didn't take 20 years to decide, back when.

[cardinal4]

Yes, I know. And I also know the caliber of Okies. My post was in jest, although I should explained that. My wager was not a slam on the state of Oklahoma, but a lament that all levels of government have failed us and i I have come to expect them acting against the will of the people and the constitution..

[sport]

I was born in 1942.

[JSDude1]

Death sentences, ALL!

This is what happens when you take God out of the schools, and fill it with liberal nonsense!

[sport]

That was then. This is now, My Friend, now the inmates are running the asylum.

[MHGinTN]

We are not far from vigilante justice raising its head ...

[Bridesheadfan]

I’m not seeing this anywhere in the news section of Yahoo. I wonder why? Where is Reverend Al? Uncle Jesse? The Resident in Chief?

[Gator113]

You were 6 years old when I came into the world. ;>)

[Sequoyah101]

Being tried as adults.

Unfortunately one has already spawned and continued his own worthless, rotten, reprehensible gene pool.

[Sequoyah101]

I guess we can dream if it gives us comfort or pleasure. My pleasure is seeing them drawn, quartered and fed to hogs so they can end up in the cesspool where they belong.

[pogo101]

SCOTUS also has forbidden life without parole, not just death, for offenses — even premeditated murder — committed by those under 18.

[ozzymandus]

Needless to say, Piers Moron was waving the bloody shirt and crying for gun control. He didn’t mention race.

[IrishBrigade]

have driven these limited, uneducated, sociopathic young people even further down the path to envy, resentment, and race hatred.

...all the more reason to fall down upon our knees and give copious thanks to those who thought it would be a peachy keen idea to import hordes of Stone Age primitives into this country for labor, rather than actually paying someone a minimal amount, and then, predictably, being forced to release these primitives into civilization at large...

[Pearls Before Swine]

Ok, I do not know what you mean.

I was observing that if the number of black babies aborted was 60% of all conceptions, that means that only 40% of conceived babies are carried to term and born. Mathematically, if abortion were eliminated in the black community, and 100% were carried to term, there would be 2 1/2 times as many black babies born (ratio of 100% to 40%), and their population would increase dramatically.

Since they seem to like us less than ever, it would be a problem.

[Iron Munro]

So who are the other three blacks shown on other threads?

That is odd, isn't it.

The names are the same but the photos look like different people.
Of course that other photo is quite distorted and they have their Gangsta' faces on.

Here is the link to the photo I posted and the story where it was carried:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/20/20102447-2-teens-charged-with-first-degree-murder-in-ballplayers-killing-in-oklahoma?lite

From left, James Francis Edwards, 15, Chancey Allen Luna, 16, and Michael Dewayne Jones, 17.
Edwards and Luna were charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a
college baseball player out for a jog in Oklahoma. Jones was charged with being an accessory to
murder after the fact and with firing a weapon.