3 US teens kill young baseball player 'for the fun of it'

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22-year-old Christopher Lane was visiting the town of Duncan (Oklahoma), where his girlfriend and her family live, when he passed a home where the three suspects were staying.

That apparently led to him being gunned down at random, Police Chief Danny Ford said Monday.

A 17-year-old in the group has given a detailed confession to police, stating, "We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody."

Then one of them said: "There's our target."

He said they followed Lane, a student from Melbourne attending college on a baseball scholarship, in a car and shot him in the back for "the fun of it" before driving off.

Lane attended East Central University in Ada (Oklahoma). He started 14 games at catcher last year and was entering his senior year.

"He was an absolute joy to coach," baseball coach Dino Rosato said in a statement issued by the school. "Chris was an extremely well-respected teammate. ... He set a great example for all of his teammates, but more importantly for the younger players. He was a mature student-athlete who his teammates could look to for advice and support."

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.