Wednesday, August 21, 2013

FOXNews.com: 911 TAPE RELEASEDCaller Saw 'Thrill Kill' Victim Stagger Across Road

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911 TAPE RELEASEDCaller Saw 'Thrill Kill' Victim Stagger Across Road
Aug 21st 2013, 15:14

Oklahoma authorities Wednesday released a 911 call from a woman reporting that Chris Lane, an Australian national who played baseball for East Central University, was shot in the back as he jogged along the side of a road.

The caller, Joyce Smith, was in her car Friday afternoon when she saw Lane stagger across the street in the town of Duncan, which is about 30 miles southwest of Oklahoma City. Lane collapsed on the side of the road with his back bloodied, she said. She called 911 and told the operator that Lane was unconscious.

"I hear no sirens. I see no lights. Oh my gosh, how long is it gonna be?"

- Joyce Smith

Smith said he was grasping for air and making a 'huh, huh, huh' sound. One person told Smith the man had been shot.

About five minutes into the call, Smith said, "I hear no sirens. I see no lights. Oh my gosh, how long is it gonna be?"

At that point, a woman was performing CPR. KOCO reported that seven minutes into the call, Smith told the dispatcher that Lane had stopped breathing. He was pronounced dead an hour later at Duncan Regional Hospital.

Officials say Lane, 22, had just visited his girlfriend.

Police Chief Dan Ford said Lane appeared to have been chosen at random, saying in a variety of media interviews since Friday's killing that one suspect told officers that he and other boys were bored and that they followed Lane and killed him for "the fun of it."

Prosecutors on Tuesday afternoon charged two teens, 16-year-old Chancey Allen Luna and 15-year-old James Francis Edwards Jr., as adults with first-degree murder. Both are being held without bond.

Bond was set at $1 million for 17-year-old Michael Jones, who allegedly drove the vehicle carrying the other suspects.  He was charged with the use of a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and accessory to murder after the fact. Jones is considered a youthful offender but will be tried in adult court.

Prosecutor Jason Hicks called the boys "thugs" in court, saying Luna was sitting in the rear seat of a car when he pulled the trigger on a .22 caliber revolver and shot Lane once in the back. Hicks said Jones was driving the vehicle and Edwards was in the passenger seat.

Edwards has had run-ins with the law previously and had been in court Friday, the day of the killing, to sign documents related to his juvenile probation.

"I believe this man is a threat to the community and should not be let out," Hicks said as he requested no bond for Edwards. "He thinks it's all a joke."

The 17-year-old wept in court after he tried to speak and was cut off by the judge.

"I'm appalled," Hicks said after the hearing. "This is not supposed to happen in this community."

Peter Lane told Australian media there was no explanation for his son's death.

"It is heartless and to try to understand it is a short way to insanity," he said.

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