Biography
Christopher Lay, age 20, son of Wade Lay, participated in the May 24, 2004 Tulsa bank-robbery attempt motivated by anti-federal-government grievance over the 1993 Waco siege. A bank security guard was killed. Convicted of first-degree murder and attempted robbery; sentenced to life in Oklahoma state prison.
The Tenth Circuit’s June 26, 2017 opinion reports that Christopher and Wade Lay claimed they needed bank funds for an anti-government revolution. It confirms Christopher’s life-without-parole sentence, distinct from Wade’s death sentence. Source: https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/01019831082.pdf (PDF page 2).
The federal court’s 2015 opinion records Christopher Lay’s October 10, 2005 sentence: life without parole on Count I and twenty-five consecutive years on Count II.
