Teen charged in ?thrill kill? of Australian college student in Oklahoma has racist tweets, report says
Published August 22, 2013
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One of three teens charged in the ‘thill kill’ of an Australian college student in Oklahoma last week has previously posted racist tweets on his Twitter account, according to a report.
The Daily Caller reported that the tweets belonged to James Francis Edwards, 15. One tweet from his account reads, “90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM.” Another post read, “Ayeee I knocced out 5 woods since Zimmerman court!:)”
The Daily Caller’s report noted that ‘woods’ is used as a derogatory term for white people.
Edwards and friend Chancey Allen Luna, 16, were both charged with first-degree murder as adults Tuesday and are being held without bond in the town of Duncan, which is about 30 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.
Bond was set at $1 million for 17-year-old Michael Jones, who allegedly drove the vehicle carrying the other suspects. He was charged with the use of a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and accessory to murder after the fact. Jones is considered a youthful offender but will be tried in adult court.
Jones named Luna as the gunman, police said.
Police Chief Dan Ford said the victim, Chris Lane, 22, appeared to have been chosen at random, saying in a variety of media interviews since Friday’s killing that one suspect told officers that he and other boys were bored and that they followed Lane and killed him for “the fun of it.”
Lane was on a baseball scholarship at East Central University in Ada, Okla., and was in Duncan, Okla., visiting his girlfriend when he was shot and killed. Some bystanders tried to perform CPR on Lane, but he was unconscious and stopped breathing before an ambulance arrived.
Lane’s killing has attracted international attention about a month after George Zimmerman, a community watch organizer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen, was acquitted by a Florida jury in a racially charged c