This was one the more heinous crimes of 2013 that shocked the world. Imagine the thought of killing just to fill the time of day and break up the boredom. That was the rationale these animals came up with for killing an innocent man.
Daily Mail reports one of the three boys accused in the fatal shooting of an Australian baseball player last summer has claimed that his friends believed the gun used in the crime contained only blanks.
James Francis Edwards Jr. agreed to testify against his co-defendants during a preliminary hearing on Tuesday.
In exchange for his testimony continuing through trial, prosecutors said they will drop a murder charge and he would only face an accessory charge.
He told an Oklahoma judge Tuesday that Chancey Luna, 16, shot and killed Christopher Lane, of Melbourne, from a car driven by Michael Dewayne Jones, 18.
Edwards, 16, said he was rolling marijuana cigarettes in the front passenger seat when Luna shot at Lane from the back seat.
The teens later drove to a restaurant, where Luna and Jones exchanged words.
According to Edwards, Luna said to Jones that he thought the gun only had blanks inside them.
Jones reportedly then responded: 'Me too. I'm sorry,' Edwards said.
Jones and Luna then dropped off Edwards at court for Edwards to sign probation papers for an unrelated juvenile charge.
Edwards, who testified wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, is the first of the three teens to talk about the August 16 shooting.
Lane, 22, was on a jog in Duncan, Oklahoma during a trip to visit his girlfriend Sarah Harper's family when he was shot in the back by the teens who sped off moments lateMore here
