As senseless as this crime is, I really hope our Aussie friends can come to see that this doesn't happen everyday, on every street in the United States. :sigh: UGH!
'Senseless' shooting of Australian Chris Lane sparks calls for U.S. boycott
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN
updated 7:52 AM EDT, Wed August 21, 2013
(CNN) -- They were younger than him, just teenagers who were driving around, apparently bored and looking for somebody to kill, according to police in Duncan, Oklahoma.
The indiscriminate shooting of Christopher Lane, a 23-year-old Australian who was living his dream of studying in the U.S. on a baseball scholarship, has repulsed many in his home country and led to calls for Australian tourists to boycott the United States.
"It is another example of murder mayhem on Main Street," former Australian deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer told CNN's Piers Morgan.
"People thinking of going to the USA for business or tourists trips should think carefully about it given the statistical fact you are 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the USA than in Australia per capita per million people."
Christopher Lane, from Australia, was gunned down in Duncan, Oklahoma, while he was out jogging last week. Police say he was killed by three teens who said they had nothing better to do. Police have now charged the three teens in Lane's death.
Michael Jones, 17, faces two charges: use of a vehicle and discharge of a weapon and accessory after the fact to murder in the first degree.
James Edwards Jr., 15, has been charged as an adult with felony murder in the first degree.
Chancey Luna, 16, has been charged as an adult with felony murder in the first degree.
Police say Lane was on one of his regular runs through what's been described as the affluent town of Duncan on Friday at about 3 p.m. local time when a car carrying three teenagers drove up behind him.
"They pulled up behind him and shot him in the back then sped away," said Capt. Jay Evans of Duncan Police Department. "It could have been anybody -- it was such a random act."
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia: 'There is deep seated anger this time'
It was the indiscriminate nature of the attack that has shocked many in Australia.
One local newspaper, under mug shots of the three suspects, aged 15, 16 and 17, ran the headline: "Faces of Evil: The teens American police say shot our star."
At the time of writing, a Facebook page set up in his honor, R.I.P Christopher Lane, had more than 46,000 followers, many of whom described his murder as "senseless" and "tragic."
https://www.facebook.com/pages/RIP-Christopher-Lane/155307978006875
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/21/justice/australia-student-killed-oklahoma/
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