Three teenage suspects accused of gunning down an Australian student in Oklahoma for the "fun of it," according to police, are expected to face first-degree murder charges in court today.
Christopher Lane, 22, who was visiting the U.S. on a baseball scholarship at East Central University, was jogging along a road in Duncan, Okla., after visiting his girlfriend on Friday when he was shot in the back, allegedly by the teens.
A woman tried CPR and paramedics arrived on scene, but Lane was pronounced dead an hour later.
"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," Duncan Police Department Chief Danny Ford told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, according to AFP.
"[They] came up from behind and basically shot him in the back with a small caliber weapon, then sped away," Ford added.
Richard Rhodes, a builder who discovered Lane lying face down, said he was targeted with a .22 caliber revolver.
Police tracked the teens down using surveillance video from a business that is near the shooting scene, KOCO reports.
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