Chancey Luna
AIMING FOR TROUBLE: James Edwards (right), Chancey Luna (inset, top) and Michael Jones (inset bottom) were reported to cops by the father of another potential victim. (
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The three Oklahoma teens charged with killing a jogger because they were bored were quickly nabbed because they allegedly threatened to murder a 17-year-old who wouldn’t join their offshoot of the Crips gang.
Christopher Johnson received the death threat via Facebook two hours after the teens gunned down their first victim on a Duncan, Okla., road, Johnson’s father said.
“My son called me and said, ‘They’re saying they’re coming to kill me,’ so I called the police and they got here within about three minutes,” James Johnson told Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper.
Cops found James Francis Edwards Jr., 15, Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, and Chancey Allen Luna, 16, in a car in Duncan’s Immanuel Baptist Church parking lot, near the Johnsons’ home, Friday afternoon.
Authorities said Jones confessed to helping his accomplices pick a random victim, Australian student Christopher Lane, 22, as he jogged in Duncan and fatally shoot him because “we were bored and didn’t have anything to do.”
James Johnson said his son attends Duncan HS with Edwards and Luna.
“They threatened to kill my son because they are in a gang, the Crips, and were trying to get my son in it and I wouldn’t let him do it,” he said. “I told him he couldn’t run with these boys. He’s a little terrified.”
Yesterday public schools in the town of 24,000 were on heightened alert after police said they learned of anonymous threats.
Terrell Cox, 16, a student at Duncan High, said the suspects were a “stand-off group that didn’t seem to care that much.”
Details of Lane’s final moments emerged from a 911 call.
“He just fell over in a ditch and there’s blood on him,” said a woman who drove by after the shooting. “He’s turning blue,” she added.
Prosecutor Jason Hicks said Edwards took his arrest so casually that he was videotaped by police “doing a little dance” when he was booked for murder.
Luna and Edwards face life in prison without parole if convicted of first-degree murder charges.