Posted on 08/20/2013 9:32:46 AM PDT by unlearner
As the family of an Australian baseball player gunned down in Oklahoma mourns his death, police said today that the college athlete was targeted by three black teenagers who simply “wanted to see someone die.”
The suspects followed Chris Lane, 22, as he jogged alongside a road in Duncan, Okla., Friday afternoon, shot him in the back and left him to die on the side of the road, said Duncan Police Chief Danny Ford.
Lane attended East Central University in Ada, Okla., on a baseball scholarship. He was in town visiting his girlfriend.
“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.”
While no one saw the actual shooting, Ford said several people heard a gunshot and “saw Lane stagger across the road, go to a kneeling position and collapse on the side of the road.” Witnesses also reported seeing a black car speeding away from the scene.
Surveillance video from several businesses captured images of the suspects’ vehicle. They were apprehended a few hours after the shooting when police received a phone call that “there were three juveniles at a house with guns and wanting to kill somebody.”
Ford said officers found three teens in the vehicle, which was parked at a church parking lot near the home.
After the teens were arrested, Ford said the driver, who is 17, told police they were all at the scene of the slaying and that the 16-year-old suspect pulled the trigger.
“He said the motive was, ‘We were going to kill somebody,’” Ford told Australian radio station 3AW. “They decided all three of them were going to kill somebody.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
To them they are only random acts of violence:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3056531/posts
USA Today even throws in a little gun control advocacy for good measure.
These troubled teens were on their way to murder a second "random" person for the day. I wonder what was the ethnicity of the second random murder target.
Excuse me, I need to go out and loot a Wal Mart in protest over this act of overt racism.
Oh, wait, I’m not black. My bad.
IF THEIR TARGET WAS WHITE IT WASN’T ‘RANDOM’.............
HUMMMM where’s Sharpton/ Jackson/ NAACP demanding justice! crickets chirping.
Well, at least they've moved on from Trayvon.
It's back to casual fun now.
It’s okay. Everything will be fine. They’ll be tried as adults, and after several years on death row, they’ll be executed. Next time this happens they’ll get the same penalty. And the next time and the next time.
Australia’s former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer is urging tourists to boycott the U.S. in the wake of the shooting.
“Tourists thinking of going to the USA should think twice,” Fischer said.
“This is the bitter harvest and legacy of the policies of the NRA that even blocked background checks for people buying guns at gunshows.
“People should take this into account before going to the United States.
“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.”
I guess that's why he's a FORMER deputy prime minister......
I see some in AU are blaming the NRA and legal gun ownership for the murder. I’m sure the three teen thugs got their guns legally. /sarc. They also urge boycott of US by tourists.
Take a chancy on me...dude stole Garrison Keillor’s eyebrows.
I read a report in FR yesterday that one of the thugs was white. Doesn’t look like it today.
There are still people that want these animals to live amongst us.
Or Groucho, for the older fahrts.
Almost one gun for every American? This former PM is a little low,
silly jackeroo.
We’ve got a Trayvon problem. Period.
“””I see some in AU are blaming the NRA and legal gun ownership for the murder. I’m sure the three teen thugs got their guns legally. /sarc. They also urge boycott of US by tourists.””
Yup, I don’t think a 16 year old can even legally buy a BB gun let alone a pistol.
OSSA = Obama Son Strike Again
Hmmmm? TWO of the three shooters were black. Does the white guy in that trio get a pass?
Clearly, they will be described by their attorney as “honor students” complete with grammar school pictures.
~ Larry Elder, The Ten Things You Can’t Say In America
Apparently I was misled by earlier reports.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.