MaggieD
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This is such a tragic story . . .
Two teens charged with murder of Australian college baseball player
I don't know what kind of supervision these kids had . . . whether they had involved parents or not . . . whether their parents had tried to get them help if they had previous records. I don't know a whole damned lot here.
But I know this is tragic. And these kinds of shootings happen all too frequently.
Should parents be held culpable in some way when their kids break the law if it can be shown they acted negligently as parents?
DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors have charged two teenage boys with first-degree murder in the random killing of an Australian baseball player as he jogged on a tree-lined road. A third teenager was charged with being an accessory.
Officers say Christopher Lane was shot dead in what Police Chief Dan Ford described as a thrill killing. Ford said a 17-year-old defendant told officers that the three teenagers were bored and shot Lane for "the fun of it."
Boys ages 15 and 16 were charged with first-degree murder and ordered held without bond. Bond was set at $1 million for the 17-year-old, who also was accused of using a vehicle while a weapon was discharged.
The 17-year-old said in open court, "I pulled the trigger," but the judge directed him to remain quiet.
Two teens charged with murder of Australian college baseball player
I don't know what kind of supervision these kids had . . . whether they had involved parents or not . . . whether their parents had tried to get them help if they had previous records. I don't know a whole damned lot here.
But I know this is tragic. And these kinds of shootings happen all too frequently.
Should parents be held culpable in some way when their kids break the law if it can be shown they acted negligently as parents?