Baseball player murdered by teens that were "bored"

[mandy0810]

I could not believe it when I read this article. The boys decided to kill someone simply because they were bored.

www.people.com/people/article/0,,20727093,00.html

It is a chillingly simple motive: Police say an Australian collegiate baseball player attending school in the U.S. was killed by three bored teens in Duncan, Okla., for "the fun of it."

As authorities prepared to charge the teens Tuesday with first-degree murder, family and friends on two continents mourned 22-year-old Christopher Lane, who was being remembered as a wonderful young man whose life ended too soon.

His girlfriend tearfully laid a cross at a streetside memorial in Oklahoma, while half a world away, his team in Australia placed flowers at home plate.

Lane, who was visiting the town of Duncan, where his girlfriend and her family live, had passed a home where the boys were staying and that apparently led to him being gunned down at random, Police Chief Danny Ford said Monday. A 17-year-old in the group has given a detailed confession to police, and charges were expected.

"They saw Christopher go by, and one of them said: 'There's our target,'" Ford said. "The boy who has talked to us said, 'We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody.'"

He said they followed Lane, a student from Melbourne attending college on a baseball scholarship, in a car and shot him in the back before driving off.

Ford told the television station KOCO in Oklahoma City that one of the teens said they shot Lane for "the fun of it."

Australia's Herald Sun newspaper said Lane's former team, Essendon Baseball Club, would turn its Sunday game against the University of Melbourne into a tribute to Lane to raise money for the family. Roses and a baseball were placed on the home plate on Monday with the message, "A wonderful young man taken too soon. Why?"

Police said witnesses rushed to help Lane after hearing a shot Friday and seeing him stagger and collapse on a road in Duncan, a south-central Oklahoma town of about 24,000 residents.

"He was face down on the ground and he was shot in the back with a .22 revolver," builder Richard Rhodes told Australian broadcasters. "I had another lady stop and we tried CPR on him. And he passed away right here."

Harper said she and Lane had only returned to the United States from Australia last week.

Lane attended East Central University in Ada, about 85 miles west of Duncan. He started 14 games at catcher last year and was entering his senior year.

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[Dusky]

That's horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

[Kore]

So fucking horrifying.

[mandy0810]

Aug 20, 2013 15:25:37 GMT -5 specialk said:

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

This makes me sick knowing my girls are growing up in this world where people can be so hateful just for the hell of it. 

[lime]

That is absolutely disgusting.

[Deleted]

That is so cold.

[sunshineray]

Sweet Jesus. This is sickening and tragic. That poor boy and his family.

[jennysmitten]

OMG, how sick.

[goaskalice]

What the mother fuck. Seriously, it does not compute for me how you go from bored to killing another human.

[iammalcolmx]

Bored??

[BaliHai]

Jesus Christ.

[tulip]

FFS. How bored could you be to think this is way out of boredom?!?

Australia's Prime Minister is telling Australians to boycott and travel to the US until we change our gun laws, I cannot blame him.

[toepick]

Aug 20, 2013 15:39:18 GMT -5 tulip said:

FFS. How bored could you be to think this is way out of boredom?!?

Australia's Prime Minister is telling Australians to boycott and travel to the US until we change our gun laws, I cannot blame him.

And in response, gun nuts will probably start shooting koalas and kangaroos.  

[Alyssa]

'We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody.'

BORED??!  Who goes and kills a person because they are bored?  If you're bored, get off your ass and go do something. Maybe get a job, who raised those little fuckers....wolves?

[ginap]

How terrible. His poor family.

[sergey]

Jesus Christ. When we were in Europe earlier this year a few locals told us how they wouldn't vacation in the US anymore because of all the gun violence. I thought they were overreacting....

[tisevee]

I just don't understand it. This is baffling.

[Kore]

Aug 20, 2013 16:30:19 GMT -5 Alyssa said:

'We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody.'

BORED??!  Who goes and kills a person because they are bored?  If you're bored, get off your ass and go do something. Maybe get a job, who raised those little fuckers....wolves?

I could "understand" 1 insane person, but the fact that THREE people all agreed to do it? Mind blowing.

[Kit]

That is so, so sad.

Bored?? JFC.