President Barack Obama has offered his condolences to the family of slain Australian baseball player Chris Lane.
Lane, 22, was a collegiate baseball player studying in the U.S. at Oklahoma’s East Central University. Three teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in Lane’s fatal shooting on Aug. 16 in nearby Duncan, Okla.
“As the President has expressed on too many tragic occasions, there is an extra measure of evil in an act of violence that cuts a young life short,” White House spokesman Matt Lehrich said in a statement to Australia’s Sunday Herald Sun on Aug. 24. “The President and First Lady’s thoughts and prayers are with Chris Lane’s family and friends in these trying times.”
