Australian Chris Lane Shot, Killed by Oklahoma Teens, Say Police (Video)

According to the AAP, police say that one of Lane’s alleged killers wrote Facebook: “Bang. Two drops in two hours,” which suggested a second victim.

Australian Chris Lane was going to college in the United States on a baseball scholarship, but saw his dreams vanish, along with his life, last Friday.

Lane, 22, was shot in the back and left to die on the side of a road in Duncan, Oklahoma.

Three unidentified teenagers aged 15, 16 and 17 were arrested for the allegedly murdering the young man (video below).

“He apparently was jogging. He went by a residence where these three boys were, they picked him as a target, they went out and got in a vehicle and followed him. [They] came up from behind and basically shot him in the back with a small calibre weapon, then sped away.” Chief Danny Ford, of the Duncan Police Department, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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