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April 21, 2015
In a quick verdict, a jury Friday decided a Duncan teenager intentionally killed an Australian baseball player out for a jog on a summer afternoon in 2013.
The jury found Chancey Allen Luna, 17, guilty of first-degree murder, rejecting his defense attorney’s claim that he only had been trying to scare the jogger.
The victim, Christopher Lane, 22, was in Oklahoma on a college baseball scholarship and was in Duncan visiting his girlfriend, Sarah Harper. He was shot in the back just before 3 p.m. Aug. 16, 2013, while jogging along Country Club Road in north Duncan.
The drive-by shooting quickly became known across the country and overseas as a thrill killing after Duncan’s police chief said another teenager, the car’s driver, had revealed their motive was boredom. Prosecutors, though, told the jury Friday they don’t know Luna’s motive.
Jurors chose as punishment life in prison without the possibility of parole.
“This naughty boy, he’s now never going to do this to any other family,” the victim’s mother, Donna Lane, told reporters as she left the courtroom.
Jurors’ only other option for punishment was life in prison — with his first chance at parole when he was in his 50s.
“We went for the most,” one juror, Jane Massey, a Duncan retiree, told The Oklahoman. “We just felt like that was the proper thing to do. Mr. Lane was in college. Mr. Lane was a baseball player. And this boy wasn’t doing anything with his life. It just wasn’t fair.”
Prosecutors could not seek the death penalty because of Luna’s age.
Jurors deliberated for about an hour, beginning shortly before noon Friday. They ate pizza in the jury room as they worked. Sheriff’s deputies announced at 1:05 p.m. that the jury had reached a verdict.
