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Three teens accused of murder of baseball player Chris Lane identified
news.com.au ^

Posted on 08/20/2013 11:31:07 AM PDT by Carismar

The Oklahoma teens who face first-degree murder charges have been named as Chancey Luna, James Edwards and Michael Jones.

But their parents yesterday protested their innocence.

Jennifer Luna, whose son is suspected of firing the fatal shot, claimed her son was at home saying: "My son is not that way. My son is a good kid."

Earlier today, former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer has urged Australian tourists to boycott the US in the wake of the shooting murder of the Melbourne baseball star.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: barackobamalegacy; blackonwhitecrime; chanceyallenluna; chanceyluna; chrislane; civilrights; doublestandard; hatecrime; injusticedepartment; jamesedwards; jamesfrancisedwards; jessejacksonsilent; michaeldewaynejones; michaeljones; movealong; nothingtoseehere; obamason; obamasons; obamasracewar; race; thrillkillers; thrillkilling
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To: rhubarbk

The reports said two were black and one white...but those guys all look black to me. Regardless of color..these guys need to be charged as adults and get life..
Where did they get the gun?


22 posted on 08/20/2013 11:45:08 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Carismar

I’m just waiting for claims that the charges are too harsh and racist.


23 posted on 08/20/2013 11:45:16 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: F15Eagle

The shooter is apparently a white black, like 0bama.


24 posted on 08/20/2013 11:45:22 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Oldexpat
Where did they get the gun?

Eric Holder is probably withholding that info...

25 posted on 08/20/2013 11:46:24 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Carismar
"Earlier today, former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer has urged Australian tourists to boycott the US...said turning our backs on America would help send a stern message about the need for tighter gun control....Mr Fischer, who led Australia's gun control reforms alongside former prime minister John Howard in 1996, said choosing not to travel to the US would help build pressure on the US Congress to finally act."

Three thugs hunted him down and killed him in cold blood simply because they didn't like his skin color, but it's the gun's fault. Never miss an opportunity to wave that bloody red shirt eh, Mr. Fischer?
26 posted on 08/20/2013 11:47:50 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Carismar

The media outrage in ........????


27 posted on 08/20/2013 11:48:40 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Awhite woman would be accused of racism if she gave birth to a white baby.)
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To: Carismar
From the Daily Oklahoman

DUNCAN — The 17-year-old driver in a shooting that left a East Central University athlete from Australia dead admitted the slaying was a random thrill killing, the police chief said Monday.

About 3 p.m. Friday, Christopher Lane, 23, was found with a gunshot wound to his lower back on Country Club Road just south of Twilight Beach Drive in Duncan, Police Chief Danny Ford said. He died about an hour later at a hospital.

Three juvenile male suspects — ages 15, 16 and 17 — were arrested in connection with the shooting, but they will not be named until they are charged, Ford said.

First-degree murder charges against the three are expected to be filed Tuesday in Stephens County, he said.

Police used surveillance footage from local businesses to identify the car thought to be involved in the shooting, and the teens were located inside the vehicle in a church parking lot after a caller reported that juveniles with guns were at the address threatening to kill someone, Ford said.

The 17-year-old — who Ford said admitted to being the driver — told investigators that the 16-year-old pulled the trigger. The 15-year-old was reportedly just a passenger in the car during the shooting, Ford said.

Sunday afternoon, the 17-year-old admitted that the teens had been in a house a quarter-mile to half-mile south of the shooting scene when they saw Lane pass by and designated him as their target, Ford said.

“They followed him, shot him in the back and drove off,” he said.

“When asked why he did it, he said, ‘We were bored and decided to kill somebody,'” Ford said.

Investigators discovered a dismantled shotgun with the serial numbers ground off in the trunk underneath the spare tire, but the gun used in the killing — thought to be a small-caliber revolver — has not been found, he said.

“He did tell us where they left the gun, and they have scoured the area, but we have not recovered the weapon,” Ford said.

Lane played baseball for the ECU Tigers and started 14 games as a catcher earlier this year, according to the Tigers website. He is from Melbourne, Australia, and also played baseball at a prep school in a suburb of that city before attending Redlands Community College in El Reno, according to the Tigers website.

Tyler Iago met Lane at Redlands, where they played together for two seasons before Lane earned his associate degree and moved to Ada to complete his bachelor's degree in business.

“I'm a pitcher, and he's a catcher. Anyone who knows baseball knows the relationship between pitcher and catcher is one-of-a-kind,” Iago said.

“We've seen each other at our worst, and we've seen each other at our best. Nine months of the year for two years straight, every day of the year,” he said.

Iago said when he suffered an elbow injury, Lane — who had suffered a shoulder injury and also missed a season — was there to empathize.

“He really picked me up and helped me stay positive through the whole thing. He was really there for me,” Iago said.

Lane regularly visited Duncan to visit his girlfriend, Sarah Harper, Iago said. The couple had made the relationship, which spanned not only the state but continents, work through the four years.

“This summer, she went back with him (to Australia), and they spent all summer together. He always found a way to make it work,” Iago said.

Iago and another former Redlands teammate put together the Christopher Lane fund through the crowdfunding site GoFundMe on Monday. The fund was created cover the cost of taking his body to Melbourne and his funeral arrangements.

Nearly $1,300 of the $15,000 goal had been reached by 8:30 p.m. Monday.

“It hit us pretty hard. It happened to be me and three of his former teammates together when we found out. It's weighed heavy on our hearts. Anything that we're able to do locally here, I feel it's the least we can do for him for all the things he's done for us over the past two years,” Iago said.

28 posted on 08/20/2013 11:48:59 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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To: Oldexpat

Life my ass.................


30 posted on 08/20/2013 11:49:30 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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To: rhubarbk

James IQ = 1
Luna IQ = 3
Jones, He Be Smart Enough To Cover His Face = 9


Glad that I cleared up any confusion!
31 posted on 08/20/2013 11:50:01 AM PDT by rhubarbk (It's official, I'm suffering from Obama fatigue!)
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To: Carismar
Sorry, Mr. Fischer, it isn't a gun problem America has, it's a liberal problem. Most gun violence is committed by Obama supporters.
32 posted on 08/20/2013 11:50:01 AM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: Oldexpat

Life with no KY! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


33 posted on 08/20/2013 11:51:14 AM PDT by rhubarbk (It's official, I'm suffering from Obama fatigue!)
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To: rhubarbk

Do.not. Insult people of lower IQ!!! My son is the cutest, sweetest, most loving kid you will ever meet and will never be a monster.

These people are uncivilized monsters, not to be compared to those among us who have intellectual disabilities!!

I know what you meant, but some people might actually think it is a lack of brains that causes sick cruelty. No. It’s a lack of conscience and basic human civilization.


34 posted on 08/20/2013 11:54:01 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Carismar

Another casualty in the ongoing race war.


35 posted on 08/20/2013 11:55:08 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Carismar

Obama's Sons

36 posted on 08/20/2013 11:58:12 AM PDT by blam
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To: Oldexpat

I suspect Michael Jones is of Middle East origin and is not Negro. He would thus be the “white guy.” In other circumstances he would be “non white,” but in this case they need a white guy to make this a “non-racial” kiling. He is perhaps a white arab?


37 posted on 08/20/2013 12:00:22 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Carismar

A free pass, at least from the slimes and race hustlers, had they had the IQ of a slug, to invoke Trayvon.


38 posted on 08/20/2013 12:00:39 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Amish at it again!


39 posted on 08/20/2013 12:00:45 PM PDT by ChiMark (America no more)
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To: Oldexpat

The 15 year old looks more like 40 in the picture.


40 posted on 08/20/2013 12:01:25 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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