Christopher Lane, a 22-year-old Australian baseball player, was murdered while jogging in Oklahoma City by three "bored" teenagers who reportedly decidedly wanted to kill someone for fun, police said, as reported by CBS News.
Lane, who had been visiting Duncan, Oklahoma where his girlfriend and her family live, was gunned down at random by three boys, Police Chief Danny Ford said on Monday.
A 17-year-old gave the detailed confession to police, while the other two-ages 15 and 16- remain in custody. It is not yet known if the three will be charged as adults or juveniles.
"They saw Christopher go by, and one of them said,'There's our target.' The boy who talked to us said, 'We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody," Ford said.
The assailants reportedly followed Lane in a car and shot him in the back before driving off for "the fun of it," Ford Told theTV station KOCO in Oklahoma City.
"He was face down on the ground and he was shot in the back with a .22 revolver," builder Richard Rhodes told Australian broadcasters near a roadside memorial at the scene. "I had another lady stop and we tried CPR on him. And he passed away right here."
Lane attended East Central University about 85 miles west Duncan, in the town of Ada. He was a standout catcher for their baseball team.
"He was an absolute joy to coach," coach Dino Rosato said in a statement issued by the school. "Chris was an extremely well-respected teammate. ... He set a great example for all of his teammates, but more importantly for the younger players. He was a mature student-athlete who his teammates could look to for advice and support."
One of the suspect's mothers told KWTV that her son and his friends were in a "wannabe gang," CBS News reported.
"He didn't deserve any of this. It's heartbreaking that it was such a random choice those guys made that drastically altered so many lives in the process," Lane's girlfriend, Sarah Harper, said to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
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