Oklahoma Shooting: Australian Student Was Killed ‘Just For The Fun Of It, In an Oklahoma Shooting on Friday, an Australian student was shot fatally as he jogged in Duncan, Oklahoma. Christopher Lane, aged 22, from Melbourne, Australia, was a college baseball player and overseas student who died tragically on the road where he was jogging died after he was shot in the back by teenagers.
James Francis Edwards Jr, aged just 15 and Chancey Allen Luna, Aged 16 and Michael Dewayne Jones, aged 17, have been charged with first-degree murder and are being held without bond. Jones, the oldest of the three accused teenagers, admitted his guilt to the court on Tuesday saying: “I pulled the trigger.” Jones was told to be quiet by the judge presiding over the case, who told Him that the court proceedings at this stage were not to discuss precise details of the fatal shooting.
In the Oklahoma shooting, the man killed by the teenagers died at the scene. Dan Ford, the local Police Chief, spoke to reporters about the interviews already held with the suspects. He reported that Jones said that he and his friends shot Lane because they were bored, quoting him as saying they did it: “just for the fun of it.”
Christopher Lane, the man who was tragically shot and killed, gave up pursuing an Australian football career and instead to America to pursue his dream of becoming a baseball star. Lane’s Girlfriend, Sarah harper, laid a cross next to the sidewalk where her boyfriend was shot, in Duncan, Oklahoma.
Australia’s former Prime Minister, Tim Fischer, spoke to the Herald Sun and clearly appalled by the fatal shooting of one of his citizens, urging: “Tourists thinking of going to the USA should think twice. I am deeply angry about this because of the callous attitude of the three teenagers, (but) it’s a sign of the proliferation of guns on the ground in the USA. There is a gun for almost every American.” Do you agree with Mr Fischer that it is the fact that there is, in his words, a “gun for almost every American,” which led to the fateful Oklahoma shooting on Friday?
James Francis Edwards Jr, aged just 15 and Chancey Allen Luna, Aged 16 and Michael Dewayne Jones, aged 17, have been charged with first-degree murder and are being held without bond. Jones, the oldest of the three accused teenagers, admitted his guilt to the court on Tuesday saying: “I pulled the trigger.” Jones was told to be quiet by the judge presiding over the case, who told Him that the court proceedings at this stage were not to discuss precise details of the fatal shooting.
In the Oklahoma shooting, the man killed by the teenagers died at the scene. Dan Ford, the local Police Chief, spoke to reporters about the interviews already held with the suspects. He reported that Jones said that he and his friends shot Lane because they were bored, quoting him as saying they did it: “just for the fun of it.”
Christopher Lane, the man who was tragically shot and killed, gave up pursuing an Australian football career and instead to America to pursue his dream of becoming a baseball star. Lane’s Girlfriend, Sarah harper, laid a cross next to the sidewalk where her boyfriend was shot, in Duncan, Oklahoma.
Australia’s former Prime Minister, Tim Fischer, spoke to the Herald Sun and clearly appalled by the fatal shooting of one of his citizens, urging: “Tourists thinking of going to the USA should think twice. I am deeply angry about this because of the callous attitude of the three teenagers, (but) it’s a sign of the proliferation of guns on the ground in the USA. There is a gun for almost every American.” Do you agree with Mr Fischer that it is the fact that there is, in his words, a “gun for almost every American,” which led to the fateful Oklahoma shooting on Friday?
