two charged with first-degree murder Teens front court over Chris Lane's murder US correspondent Nick O'Malley reports from Duncan, Oklahoma, as the three teenagers accused of killing Australian Chris Lane in a senseless drive-by shooting front court. Duncan, Oklahoma: The youths looked terribly young and more stunned than scared when they were led individually into a packed courtroom in rural Oklahoma to face charges for the murder of Christopher Lane, an Australian they had never met. The prosecutor, Jason Hicks, repeated the terrible details already shared by police - that Mr Lane, who was visiting his girlfriend, Sarah Parker, had jogged past the boys as they sat around outside a house on Friday afternoon; that they selected him as a target, followed him in a car and shot him about four minutes later. Charged: Chancey Luna, Michael Jones and James Edwards. For people trying to understand what drove the boys to kill Mr Lane, their brief court appearances offered a few hints but no answers beyond the information already released by local police, that they were bored. Chancey Allen Luna, 16, is accused of pulling the trigger of the .22-calibre handgun that was used to kill Mr Lane. He was charged with first-degree murder and refused a bond before being lead away in his orange prison pyjamas, shackled hand and foot. As he stood before the judge, his mother sitting in the third row, was handed documents detailing her son's rights. Her hands shook as she gripped the papers and she sobbed as he was led away. Two rows in front of her, Cindy Harper, Sarah's mother, sat quietly throughout the proceedings. Jennifer Luna, right, the mother of murder suspect Chancey Luna, turns away from the media. James Francis Edwards, jnr, 15, is alleged to have been a passenger in the car and was also charged with first-degree murder. Mr Hicks said the youth had been cold and callous throughout the proceedings. He said that as James stood before officers at the charging counter he danced, and has since treated the matter as a "joke." Mr Hicks noted that a short time after the murder James appeared in the very courthouse he was formally charged with to attend a court ordered supervision meeting for earlier offences. But the boy's court appointed lawyer, Jim Berry, told Fairfax that his client takes the matter very seriously, and denies his attitude is callous. He is very upset. As he was led out of the room, more sobbing could be heard throughout the small court. Outside the court his father, James Edwards snr, said he stood by his boy, an athlete who dreamed of one day competing in wrestling in the Olympic Games. He said James was a happy boy who, while being known to police, had not been in serious trouble before. Spectators line up to go through a metal detector to enter the courtroom. He said he did not believe his son could have been responsible for the killing. He had heard rumours the boys were "wannabe gangsters," but only since the shooting. Duncan police chief told media earlier that the boys "wanted to be Billy Bob Badasses" . Australian college student Christopher Lane is pictured playing catcher. Police arrested three teens in the death of Lane, one of whom told police they shot Lane because they were bored, according to media reports. Mr Edwards Snr said his son did not grow up around guns. He said to me, 'Dad, why don't we have guns around the house?' and I said, 'because I don't need no guns'. James' older sister said she believed racism was a factor in the charges, with the two African-American boys receiving the tougher charges. The oldest of the three accused is Michael Dewayne Jones, 17. He has been charged with accessory after the fact of first degree murder and a vehicle and firearm offence. He also faces what Mr Hicks called "a long, long sentence" if convicted, but Mr Hicks told the court he had co-operated with police and the District Attorney. His bond was set at US$1 million. Because of the seriousness of the charges they face not guilty pleas were automatically entered on their behalf and they were given no opportunity to address the court at any length, with the judge silencing one of the youths when he went to offer details of the crime. While may of their supporters sobbed openly, all three boys remained mostly silent, making little attempt to even catch eyes with those in court. They raised their shackled hands to take their oaths and offered quiet responses when the judge asked if they understood the process and their rights. The people of Duncan, an oil and farming town of about 25,000, known for little apart from being the birthplace of the the company Halliburton, are shocked by Friday's murder. "I would say to our Australian friends that this is not Duncan, Oklahoma," said Mr Hicks after the brief hearing, and the sentiment was echoed around Duncan. He said some people were now scared to leave home. One man who lived near the site of the killing is George Schwartz, who is stunned not only because of the pointless violence, but because his two boys - who know the accused - were in the street minutes before the shooting. "It could have been them," he says. Mr Schwartz's 16-year-old son Joseph goes to school with the boys, and is now reluctant to return to school. He knows all three of them because he is 16-years-old too. He knows that the kids aren't the greatest, let's put it that way. He is shocked in my opinion... he knows that some kids are off base, it's sad. No one else in town could explain the attack either. Duncan is a small town without a gang problem, though a sheriff's officer said he believed youths who had "bought themselves up" were becoming more violent. Even in wider America, a nation that is used to gun crimes, the story attracted significant attention, largely due to its terrible pointlessness. People are appalled by but understand drug killings, fights and domestic violence. They have even come to a sad understanding of the rare figure that seeks fame by mass killing. But the thought that a group of small town boys killed in cold blood out of idle boredom seems to confound comprehension. Over the road from the grassy verge where Mr Lane died lives Roy Burke, the head football coach of the local middle school. He remembers Sarah Harper from when he taught her PE in Roy Rogers elementary school girl. "You think things like this don't happen in your town, but obviously they happen anywhere," he said. Bad things happen to good people.