Timeline of the Chris Lane murder case

Australian baseballer Chris Lane was shot dead by two teenagers as he jogged through the streets of a US rural city two years ago.

HOW THE MURDER CASE AGAINST CHANCEY LUNA UNFOLDED

2013

August 13: Chris Lane, 22, from Melbourne, was jogging along a street in the rural southern Oklahoma city of Duncan when he was shot in the back with a .22 calibre handgun.

August 20: James Edwards, 15, and Chancey Luna, 16, are charged with first-degree murder, to be tried as adults. Michael Jones, 17, was charged as an accessory.

2015

March 23: Luna's lawyers call for a larger pool of jurors as just 2.1 per cent of people in Stephens County are African-American, something they say is unfair.

April 14: The jury selection process begins.

April 15: Trial begins and Luna's lawyer says his client did fire the fatal shot in the drive-by shooting, but it was not premeditated.

April 17: A jury took just one hour to find Luna guilty of murdering Chris Lane.

June 16: Oklahoma District Court judge Ken Graham sentenced Luna to life in prison without parole. Luna's lawyers have filed an appeal but it will take about two years before it will be heard.


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