0 >> any resistance to being arrested when the police pulled up on them? >> no. there was no resistance to an arrest. >> have you had -- people don't realize that one of the toughest parts about being a prosecutor is that you often at some point you talk to the victim's family. that's tough. that's hard. and i realize that they live in australia. but have you had any contact so far with them? >> it's a very difficult conversation to have with the victim's family. i have visited with the girlfriend with the harper family inside duncan. i have not visited with the lane family in australia. but we'll be doing that within the next i'll say week to two weeks. >> what do you say to them? >> i don't know that there's anything they can say to them. i certainly can't do anything to bring their child back. he was sent over here to do nothing more than to seek an education and to better himself. all i can do is apologize for their loss, apologize to the australian community for such a tragic accident. because this isn't reflective of our society. it's not reflective of duncan, oklahoma. it's not reflective of stephens county, oklahoma. and express to them that i'm going to do everything that i can, everything within my power to ensure that these three thugs pay for exactly what they did to their son. >> looking at your docket, i know you have some feel for your docket when cases get tried or not. i know you can't tell us with certainty but you have some sort of idea. when would be your wild guess this would get to trial, assuming it doesn't have some sort of plea agreement? >> i think with the best case scenario, i'm going to say it's probably going to be 12 months. it's probably more realistically going to be 18 to 24 months before this actually makes it onto a trial docket. >> some jurisdictions it takes forever to try a case once they get into trial. california is the reference point. i'm curious how long would you -- i know you don't know what the defenses are. i know this is still early. but typically a trial like this lasts about how long in trial in oklahoma? >> we anticipate this lasting anywhere from one, one and a half to two weeks. it shouldn't take us more than two weeks to have it tried. >> and the next court appearance is early october? is that correct? >> that is correct. the jones is scheduled for -- actually scheduled for a preliminary hearing in early october. luna edwards are both scheduled for preliminary conferences in early october. >> will they not be tried together? i assume the defense attorney is going to try to separate them, but don't you expect -- how come the preliminary hearings aren't sort of joined together? >> there will be motions filed requesting the court hear the preliminary hearings together. jones's preliminary hearing will be heard separate from the other two simply because he's in what is referred to as the youthful offender system here in oklahoma. but when it comes time for trial, there'll be motions filed and requests made that the court hear all of it together for judicial expediency and other reasons. that will be a decision made down the road. my preference would be try them all together. >> and defense wants to try them separately. you say that jones is a youthful offender. he's actual lit oldest of the three. is that because he has a lesser charge that's allowed to be considered a youthful offender? >> yes. it's because he's charged under oklahoma statute with a drive-by shooting statute. that's a youthful offender offense in the state of oklahoma. then he's also charged with accessory after the fact. and for all intents and purposes he's being treated as an adult. we will have to file a motion to impose an adult sentence on him. that will be done in the very near future. >> but he can still be tried together with them even if he's a youthful offender? >> yes, he could. >> district attorney, thank you very much, sir. >> thank you, greta. and now to some very disturbing tweets boy one of the murder suspects. fox news correspondent garrett tenney is live with the latest. tell me about these tweets. >> they actually are very disturbing. these two tweets that we're going to to show you here are both from james edwards jr., here is the youngest of these three teens that were involved in this case. this tweet was a few months ago. he allegedly posted this. "90% of white people are nasty. #hatethem. then in another post just a few days after the trial of george zimmerman, there was this message where using slang he bragged about knocking out five white people since the verdict was read. we spoke to the district attorney earlier today as well. and he said that right now they are not focusing on the murder as a hate crime, and instead is a homicide, though. and meanwhile, a private memorial service has been scheduled for christopher lane on saturday afternoon at oklahoma christian university. that's the university where his girlfriend attends. and organizers are planning to have all who attend write down memories of lane to send to his parents in australia. and earlier this week, a former teammate of the collegiate baseball player started an online fundraiser to cover all of the expenses that it would take for lane's family to fly to oklahoma to retrieve their son's body and return it back home to australia. and as of just a few minutes ago, more than $106,000 in donations have poured in for the trip and to establish a memorial in his name. greta? >> garrett, what's the level of certainty that this twitter account is that of the defendant, number one? and number two, if it is his twitter account what's the level of certainty he's the one who actually did the tweeting? >> those are always the big questions when you are trying to verify the twitter account. they do have some profiles that of course have verified. and those are usually celebrities and big known people. but he was not one of those. we are able to look at the tweets and be able to look at different things we know. for instance, a court appearance that he had. he was tweeting there on that account. or whoever was was tweeting about a court appearance going to see the judge. we do know that edwards was scheduled to be in court at that same time that day. so we do have that go off of. but twitter accounts you can never be absolutely certain of that. police of course have not said at this time whether for sure or not that is had is. >> certainly stunning things that at least one of them is accused of saying. of course now we're all referring to this as a thrill kill. but is there any -- i guess there's nothing to sort of mitigate against that. so far no evidence has come up to at least make any of them look innocent or any of them to have nothing but sort malice in their heart on this. >> nothing has come up at this point. of course their family members, almost any family member would say they don't believe that these young men had anything to do with this crime. but at this time, they have said that they don't know exactly where those teens were at that time when this happened. when one of the mothers came home, the mother of luna, she said that she found her son at home and that he left shortly again thereafter. so there hasn't been anything to say otherwise at this time. >> garrett, thank you. >> certainly. >> 15-year-old james edwards accused of first degree murder and posting racist tweets. pastor ryan benton has known edwards for years. he joins us. good evening, sir. >> how are you doing, greta? >> very well. these tweets, have you now read them or heard of them? >> no, i haven't kept up the with any of the tweets. and just through hearing other people talk about them. but i haven't seen them myself. >> the one that james francis edwards, the young man that you know at least on his twitter account, and people believe he's the one who tweeted says "90% of white people are nasty. #hate them." how do you reconcile that with the young man who you know? >> well, in my profession, in what i do, i watch kids grow up. and as they grow, they start to make decisions. and this kid as well as other kids in our community are faced with the choices of what circle of influence they're going to follow. and i've spoke time and time again to him. and i'm just one voice of many people in the community, whether it was coaches or police officers or just leaders in the community that have talked to him about using the gifts, the talents to be able to -- to be able to lead people in the right direction rather than making the choices that they sometimes make. >> well, as i understand you saw him about three weeks ago. i'm curious, based on what you just said, i take -- this is just what i'm reading into it -- that you were a little suspicious that this was a young man who was not headed in the right direction. from what you said. is that a fair description? or does this totally shock you? >> of course this shocks me. >> but i mean, was he a troubled kid is what i'm saying. is this a troubled young man that in some way you're shocked by the heinousness of the crime but not so shocked by someone maybe who his behavior as such that the writing is on the wall? >> no. i never imagined that any kid would be capable of this. and i look at this, and i have to ask myself, what would cause something like this? and there are no answers. and we're probably not going to ever know the full extent of the driving force behind it. but when i look at kids and the circle of influence that surround them, eventually they are going to start making bad choices and they will become who they hang out with. and that's what i saw of that. he had positive influences around him. and he also had a lot of negative influences around him. >> how about his family? how about his family? do you know his family at all? know his mother, father, siblings or anything? >> i know his father. >> what can you tell me about his father? >> we run at the outreach we run a free meal program. and one of the apartment complexes that we give food to children in is the apartment complex that his father i assume is employed there as a grounds keeper. but every day throughout the summer he helped make sure that the k the kids were getting the food and that they were being respectful. and throughout the past two or three years of doing free dinner programs, he's always been there to watch out for us when we came onto the property. >> let me say, do father and mother live together? and did james edwards live at home with them? i mean, this is an intact family? >> i don't know that answer. >> ever see a mother in the picture? >> no. i haven't. >> how about the luna t who is alleged to have been the shooter? the young man you know alleged to be the passenger not the driver in the car? did you ever hear mr. luna or ever see him? >> no. no. i'm sorry i haven't. >> did edwards have good friends among the people that you minister to? does he have like good friends and nice kids and they liked him? >> he liked -- he had a wide circle of friends. he had his wrestlers that surrounded around him. he had other sports. and he had quite a few different circles. but unfortunately, one of the latter circumstan loudest circles was the one that influenced bad choices and that breaks my heart. >> it breaks all our hearts and the family and the decedent as well. pastor, thank you, sir. >> thank you. now to the issue on greta wire.com. will this thrill kill cause as much outrage as the trayvon martin shooting? go to our poll. straight ahead, where is u.n. ambassador samantha power? she was mia at the emergency meeting on syria yesterday. neither the state department north u.n. will tell up us where she is. but is her absence at this emergency meeting important? also dr. ben carson is here. and he has big news. he's going to tell you what it is coming up. plus "the butler" raking in big bucks at the box office. why is one theater owner banning that film? 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