14 DAY TRIAL // Three teens have been arrested in Oklahoma for following, shooting and killing a visiting student from Australia out of boredom.
The incident took place in Duncan in southern Oklahoma, where 22-year-old Chris Lane of Melbourne was playing baseball. He was enrolled in East Central University on an athletic scholarship.
According to ABC, the teenagers followed Lane in a car while he was running on the side of the street on Friday. They then shot him in the back and he was pronounced dead soon after that.
Duncan police Chief Danny Ford talked to one of the teens after the arrest and he was told that they were bored.
"I think they were on a killing spree. We would have had more bodies that night if we didn't get them," Ford notes.
"We were bored. We wanted something to do and we decided to kill somebody," they reportedly said.
They also announced their intention to kill someone in a post on Facebook.
"Bang. Two drops in two hours," they wrote before the killing.
The suspects are 15, 16 and 17 years old. One of their mothers, Jennifer Luna, insists that her son was at home at the time of the shooting.
"The timeframe that it happened I know he was at home. I get off work at three, it takes me five minutes to get home and he was there. That's what time they said it happened.
"He didn't act no different than any other day. Every kid likes to fight but as far as getting in trouble, he's never been in trouble," she describes.
Luna argues that her son has never had any run-in with the law and she advocates his innocence.
"I don't believe he needs a life sentence or a death penalty," she adds.
The victim's girlfriend, Sarah Harper has detailed that they were not acquainted with the suspects beforehand.
"I didn't know anything about them until after all this happened, and... I have no intention to see them, hear them," she says.