Chris Lane: accused admits shooting baseball player, but says it was accident
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Version 0 of 1. The Australian baseball player Chris Lane was shot accidentally, the defence lawyer for 17-year-old Chancey Luna has told an Oklahoma jury. “He shot the gun to scare the jogger,” Luna’s lawyer Jim Berry said in his opening statement in Duncan district court on Tuesday. “I believe that will be the evidence.” Luna is charged with the first-degree murder of 22-year-old Lane. Berry said there was no plan or premeditation from Luna to shoot the Australian. The assistant district attorney Cortnie Siess told the jury Luna deliberately pointed a .22-calibre revolver and shot Lane in the back as he jogged along a street in Duncan in August 2013. “He intentionally pulled that trigger,” Siess said. “He hit Christopher Lane in the back.” Lane’s Oklahoma girlfriend, Sarah Harper, was the first witness called and wept when she told the court how she heard there had been a “drive-by” shooting nearby but did not think Lane was involved until police came to her work. “They said he was shot and he did not make it,” Harper, whose parents live in Duncan, said. The trial continues. |