Oklahoma police say boredom led teens to kill Australian baseball player on the street for fun http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/oklahoma-police-say-australian-baseball-player-killed-on-street-because-teenagers-were-bored/2013/08/19/cc4f5dd4-092d-11e3-89fe-abb4a5067014_story.html 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. “He was an absolute joy to coach,” baseball coach Dino Rosato said in a statement issued by the school. “Chris was an extremely well-respected teammate. ... He set a great example for all of his teammates, but more importantly for the younger players. He was a mature student-athlete who his teammates could look to for advice and support.” Peter Lane told Australian broadcasters there was no explanation for his son’s death. “It is heartless and to try to understand it is a short way to insanity,” he said. Ford wouldn’t say how many times Christopher Lane was shot. Autopsy results are pending. The race of the shooters were....:smt011
This has been major news over here the past couple of days, along with Americas lack of gun control and when and if it could or would ever be fixed.
Boredom does not lead to murder. Lack of morals and a horrible relationship with empathy leads to murder.
Bingo. Instead of painting that picture though, people like to drum up excuses for why they <insert violent act here>. So sad for his family
we're planning one for when the law lets these kids off for the murder. You mean they haven't tried to let them off right there in the police station? Shocking. Wait, it'll come. Me and you will link arms and lead the march, okay paniro? :mrgreen: Btw, I'll say it again. Guns make for a polite society (between all the tragedy, that is) A decade or so back some other kids did the same thing: killed a third kid because they wanted to see how it feels to kill someone. Not too long ago some other guys killed a couple because they wanted to "earn" a specific tattoo. I forget the race of the perps in those cases tho. :mrgreen:
add to that a jacked up sense of values. There all were probably scared to do what they did, but it would've meant "being a punk" if they had backed out In their book, there's nothing wrong with killing someone who's done nothing wrong to you. There's only something wrong with being afraid to. "Down for whateva" is actually a moral value in some subcultures.
Yeah because criminals don't follow laws. Unless you're suggesting a police state where they start going house to house to take guns I don't see how this could have really been prevented. They are going to jail for the rest of their lives open and shut
