Oklahoma teen sentenced to life in prison for killing Australian

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OKLAHOMA CITY, Sha'ban 30, 1436, June 17, 2015, SPA -- An Oklahoma teen was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally shooting an Australian student baseball player who was out on a jog, according to Reuters. Chancey Luna, 18, was convicted of the August 2013 drive-by killing of Christopher Lane, then a 22-year-old student at East Central University as he was jogging along a residential road in Duncan, about 80 miles southwest of Oklahoma City. Prosecutors said Luna and two other teenagers in a car with him shot Lane because they were bored. Attorneys for Luna said he was 16 at the time of the crime and should have had his case heard by a juvenile court. Luna was tried as an adult. One co-defendant in the case, James Edwards Jr., struck a deal with the prosecution to testify against Luna, having his murder charge dropped to an accessory-after-the-fact count. During a preliminary hearing last year, Edwards testified that another teenager, Michael Jones, was driving and that Luna fired the gun from the back seat. Jones pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison, court officials said. --SPA 00:44 LOCAL TIME 21:44 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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