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Killing Of Australian Sparks Calls For Boycott Of U.S.

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A memorial to Christopher Lane is shown Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, along the road where he was shot and killed, in Duncan, Okla. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)
A memorial to Christopher Lane is shown Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, along the road where he was shot and killed, in Duncan, Okla. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

Former Australian deputy prime minister Tim Fischer is urging Australian tourists to stay away from the U.S., following the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Christopher Lane, an Australian on a baseball scholarship at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.

Fischer told the country's Herald-Sun newspaper that Australians should boycott the U.S. as a way to force Congress to act on gun control.

Police say Lane was jogging through a neighborhood in Duncan, Okla., when three teenagers drove up and shot him. Those three teens have now been charged.

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  • Claire Crouch, reporter for KSWO, the ABC television affiliate in Lawton, Oklahoma.

This segment aired on August 21, 2013.

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