The alleged driver in the Oklahoma drive-by shooting of Australian baseball player Chris Lane fears a backlash from jurors at next month's murder trial.

Michael Jones, who was 17 and the oldest of the three boys accused of being in the car when Lane was shot in 2013, wants the trial moved away from Oklahoma's Stephens County.

Lane's death shocked and outraged the close-knit city of Duncan, with headlines generated around the world and US President Barack Obama being so moved he issued a statement.

Mr Jones' lawyer says an impartial jury could not be found in the county.

Because of the life, background and characteristics of Lane, the defence believes that the community has a sense of being 'victimised' because this type of event should not happen in their community," Mr Jones' attorney Silas Lyman II argued in the motion, the Duncan Banner newspaper reported yesterday.

Five Stephens County residents signed affidavits in support of the change of venue.

The family of Christopher Lane, including girlfriend Sarah Harper, leaves St Therese's Church in Essendon. (AAP) (AAP)

The alleged shooter, Chancey Luna, who was 16 when Lane was struck in the back with a single bullet while jogging along a street, has also asked for his trial to be moved out of the county.

Mr Luna's lawyer has asked for the words "thrill kill", "bored" and "thugs" to be banned from his April murder trial.

The lawyer has also filed motions asking the court to classify Mr Luna as a juvenile, rather than an adult, and to exclude the media and public from motion hearings and argument.

Duncan police alleged Lane was randomly selected and shot because the boys were bored.

Duncan residents who spoke to AAP were apologetic, upset and shamed by the death of the 22-year-old from Melbourne.

Lane had a baseball scholarship at Oklahoma's East Central University and was dating Duncan local, Sarah Harper.

The youngest accused, James Edwards Jr, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, has become a prosecution witness and will face an accessory charge.