Police Reportedly Say Teen Shot Australian Student in Oklahoma for the ‘Fun Of It’ (+video)
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One of three teen suspects accused of gunning down an Australian student in Oklahoma who was visiting the US on a baseball scholarship said the killing was done for the “fun of it,” police reportedly said.
Chris Lane, 23, was jogging along a road in Duncan, Okla., after visiting his girlfriend on Friday when he was shot in the back, Sky News reports.
A woman tried CPR and paramedics arrived on scene, but Lane was pronounced dead an hour later.
“He apparently was jogging. 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,” Duncan Police Department Chief Danny Ford told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, according to AFP.
“[They] came up from behind and basically shot him in the back with a small caliber weapon, then sped away,” Ford added.
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Australian Student ‘Shot For Fun’ By US Teens
Chris Lane, 23, was jogging in the small town of Duncan in Oklahoma last Friday, after visiting his girlfriend Sarah Harper, when he was shot in the back and left to die.
“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,” said Danny Ford, chief of Duncan Police Department.
“(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.
A woman tried CPR, and paramedics were quickly on the scene, but the student was pronounced dead an hour later.
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