Three “bored” teenage boys targeted Australian 22-year-old Christopher Lane at random, after spotting him running. The boys followed Lane in a car and shot him in the back.
Baseball player Christopher Lane, 22, from Melbourne, Australia.
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Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, told officials that he and his friends were "bored" and killed Christopher Lane for "the fun of it" while he was out for a jog in an Oklahoma neighborhood, police said.
Chancey Allen Luna, 16, was sitting in the rear seat of a car when he spotted Lane and shot him in the back, prosecutor Jason Hicks said. James Francis Edwards Jr., 15, was in the passenger seat and Jones was driving the car, Hicks said.
Australian college student Christopher Lane is pictured playing catcher in this photo. Lane came to U.S. on a baseball scholarship to play for East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.
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A 911 emergency call obtained by The Associated Press offers details of the next moments as a woman tells the operator she saw Lane fall over into a ditch as she drove by.
"He's got blood on his back," the woman says.
Later reporting information from another witness the woman said to the 911 operator: "He's turning blue. He's making a noise."
