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all10suspects
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N.C. Department of Correction spokesman Keith Acree said Wake County officials had started the process of revoking Atwater's probation. A hearing had been scheduled for March 31.
The system allowed this person to stay free and kill Eve. If the N.C. Department of Correction had reason to want him to be locked up than they should have locked him up. Waiting on paper work let this person kill Eve. Usually I think their is a reason why the law enforcement may want people behind bars. I think 9 out of 10 they are right. IMO!
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| woebedamned
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| all10suspects wrote: | N.C. Department of Correction spokesman Keith Acree said Wake County officials had started the process of revoking Atwater's probation. A hearing had been scheduled for March 31.
The system allowed this person to stay free and kill Eve. If the N.C. Department of Correction had reason to want him to be locked up than they should have locked him up. Waiting on paper work let this person kill Eve. Usually I think their is a reason why the law enforcement may want people behind bars. I think 9 out of 10 they are right. IMO! |
Oh hell, this scenario plays out all the time. How many have been raped and or murdered because of system failure? Happens all the time, and will, no doubt, continue to happen. There is no perfect system, not in the states, nor anywhere else in the world. Expecting as much is an exercise in futility.
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| all10suspects
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This case is strange. If they charged one of the suspects with another killing then why did they not arrest that person before Eve was killed?
Seems to me the police did a better job in Eve's killing then in the 29 year
old Duke guy that was killed in Jan. If the cops did their job right back in
Jan. maybe Eve would still be alive today. The cops need to treat every case the same!
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| Icky Thump
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Back in the first case, the cops did not have surveillance video from an ATM and a convenience store or they would have handled the case the same way.
Now the media is a different story- 27yo male grad student from Duke is not going to get nearly as much attention as the student body president of UNC-CH any way you shake it. It's not that Eve was a pretty young white girl, the case got so much media because she was the student body president of a major university. They also had more to publicize in Eve's case (the videos).
The media definitely treated the cases differently, the police did not.
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| all10suspects
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Did you also know that a judge let the 17 year old out of a youth type jail
early. The kid was supposed to stay in until 19 but a judge let him out and 2 people are dead because of this judge. Also the 17 year old was arrested 9 times after the Duke student was killed and beofe the UNC
student was killed. How could anybody be arrested 9 times and not stay in jail? The law enforcement system of North Carloina is to blame for these 2 student deaths!
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| justamom
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| woebedamned wrote: |
Oh hell, this scenario plays out all the time. How many have been raped and or murdered because of system failure? Happens all the time, and will, no doubt, continue to happen. There is no perfect system, not in the states, nor anywhere else in the world. Expecting as much is an exercise in futility. |
Most of them. When a person is finally caught under any crime and ecspecially something this bad then theyve done it before. Im in NC and sorry to say all10 but like most states we dont have the room to house every person whose had a crime violation. NC has many flaws and errors in court and this is just one of MANY. Im sure other states have their own problems as well. This guy would likely have killed regardless. He could have been in jail sure, but probably would have been out by now with good behavior and still committed murder. It happens.
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| all10suspects
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| justamom wrote: |
Most of them. When a person is finally caught under any crime and ecspecially something this bad then theyve done it before. Im in NC and sorry to say all10 but like most states we dont have the room to house every person whose had a crime violation. NC has many flaws and errors in court and this is just one of MANY. Im sure other states have their own problems as well. This guy would likely have killed regardless. He could have been in jail sure, but probably would have been out by now with good behavior and still committed murder. It happens. |
We have to many liberal judges. This kid should have been in jail until 19. Would he have killed anyway if he stay in jail longer or would he be afraid to go back to jail? The judge screwed up and now 2 bright students
were killed!
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| justamom
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Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:17 am |
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| all10suspects wrote: |
We have to many liberal judges. This kid should have been in jail until 19. Would he have killed anyway if he stay in jail longer or would he be afraid to go back to jail? The judge screwed up and now 2 bright students
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Maybe so but judges arent psychics and cant see what might happen. You should take the time to go sit in on a juvenile court session and you might be surprised at the problems most youth offenders have and undestand whyjudges decide as they do. The point of juvenile court isnt to lock them up and throw them away like they never existed but to try and rehabilitate them so they can become better people. Most of the kids there have been all but abandoned or abandoned by their parents. I was in juvenile court last month with my son over something small and his friend was there too. Alone. No parents anywhere. I asked my son about it and the kids dad was in jail, and mom took off with some guy never to be heard from again. This kid was 15 yrs old, living in a trailer by himself, responsible for food, bills etc with no parents around. He had an older brother who is 19 but thats really not the best scenerio you know?
Alot of the kids there were mentally ill, had issues at home, were abused etc. You dont just THROW the kids away. You try and help. Some you can and some you cant. I find this situation sad all the way around.
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| woebedamned
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| justamom wrote: |
Maybe so but judges arent psychics and cant see what might happen. You should take the time to go sit in on a juvenile court session and you might be surprised at the problems most youth offenders have and undestand whyjudges decide as they do. The point of juvenile court isnt to lock them up and throw them away like they never existed but to try and rehabilitate them so they can become better people. Most of the kids there have been all but abandoned or abandoned by their parents. I was in juvenile court last month with my son over something small and his friend was there too. Alone. No parents anywhere. I asked my son about it and the kids dad was in jail, and mom took off with some guy never to be heard from again. This kid was 15 yrs old, living in a trailer by himself, responsible for food, bills etc with no parents around. He had an older brother who is 19 but thats really not the best scenerio you know?
Alot of the kids there were mentally ill, had issues at home, were abused etc. You dont just THROW the kids away. You try and help. Some you can and some you cant. I find this situation sad all the way around. |
I think this is one of the biggest problems our system has. We are using our prison system to house the mentally ill, where they get little to no treatment. 1 in 4 Americans are now in jail or prison...how many of them are simply mentally ill, not criminal?
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| all10suspects wrote: |
We have to many liberal judges. This kid should have been in jail until 19. Would he have killed anyway if he stay in jail longer or would he be afraid to go back to jail? The judge screwed up and now 2 bright students were killed! |
Our prisons are overcrowded. People don't want to pay more taxes to warehouse more than one fourth of our society. Some demand longer sentences with little differentiation between violent and nonviolent offenders. In my opinion, these problems can be reduced by listening to experts in the field and working in a bi-partisan manner. At a local level, I'll vote for the republican or democrat who appears most willing to tackle problems without resorting to hollow rhetoric.
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| all10suspects wrote: | | Did you also know that a judge let the 17 year old out of a youth type jail early. The kid was supposed to stay in until 19 but a judge let him out and 2 people are dead because of this judge. Also the 17 year old was arrested 9 times after the Duke student was killed and beofe the UNC student was killed. How could anybody be arrested 9 times and not stay in jail? The law enforcement system of North Carloina is to blame for these 2 student deaths! |
The people to blame are the people who killed them. No system is perfect. Law enforcement is made up of people like you and me. They try their best, and probably feel horrible about this case.
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| all10suspects
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Judge Reprimands Johnston District Attorney's Office
Posted: Today at 5:35 p.m.
Updated: Today at 6:26 p.m.
Fayetteville, N.C. — A Superior Court judge has reprimanded the Johnston County District Attorney's Office for waiting too long to turn over evidence in the murder trial of a woman accused of shooting her boyfriend to death nearly two years ago.
Prosecutors turned over a 437-page file with investigators' notes to defense attorneys for Tiffany Ann Bassett five days before the trial was supposed to start March 17.
The district attorney's office said it only recently discovered this missing file, and turned it over right away.
But Superior Court Judge E. Lynn Johnson called the late disclosure "egregious" before ordering a new trial date of April 21 in Cumberland County. The trial's location had been changed because of pre-trial publicity.
Bassett is charged with first-degree murder in the July 18, 2006, death of Donald "Keith" West, whom authorities found dead inside his bedroom. West was the president and chief executive officer of West-Tek Inc. of Smithfield. He was also a former Smithfield police officer.
"The judge could have thrown (the case) out if the judge had determined it was a willful violation," said Irving Joyner, an attorney and professor of law at North Carolina Central University.
"Finally, we're at trial almost two years later, and then, it was like a kick in the stomach," said West's sister, Janet Tedder, who said she believes elections and changes in the prosecutor's office played a role in the case taking so long to go to trial.
"I think 20 months ago, the focus on this case was not there," she said.
"I think there are major flaws in the system, and that's why defense attorneys have been fighting for years to bring about some change," Joyner said
The district attorney's office said that as of March 1 there is a new system in place to track every piece of evidence, to prevent something like this from happening again.
Bassett's attorney, W. Robert Denning III, declined to comment Wednesday.
I can not believe how screwed up the North Carolina legal system is.
From not protecting Eve to not getting this guys family justice. Heck
they make the ALE look good!
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| justamom
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| woebedamned wrote: |
I think this is one of the biggest problems our system has. We are using our prison system to house the mentally ill, where they get little to no treatment. 1 in 4 Americans are now in jail or prison...how many of them are simply mentally ill, not criminal? |
alot Im sure since 1 in 4 americans also suffer from some sort of mental illness. Unless u have some bad mental problem that renders you unable to tell the diff between right and wrong then u end up in jail. Most ppl with mental problems do know when to call the cops and that murder, rape and robbery is wrong, and will admit yes that was the wrong thing to do when examined. Once they admit it most end up on trial or whatever and plopped down with others in jail.
Alot of reform work is done on a juvenile level where they can order parents to have their kids tested and order them to give the kids meds if needed, but once they turn 16 its pretty much out of the parents hands.
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Records: Probation Officer Never Met With UNC Murder Suspect
POSTED: 8:15 am EDT March 26, 2008
UPDATED: 10:04 am EDT March 26, 2008
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Records show the probation officer ordered to monitor Laurence Alvin Lovette never met with the teen, now charged with killing two college students.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that records show officer Chalita Thomas went by Lovette's mother's home in Durham once in late February, but he wasn't there.
Lovette is charged with killing University of North Carolina student body president and Athens, Georgia, native Eve Carson earlier this month and Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato in January.
Lovette had been placed on probation in January after he pleaded guilty to larceny and breaking and entering.
Correction Department spokesman Keith Acree says the handling of Lovette's case is under review.
Maxine Easom, the principal of Clarke Central High School in Athens, where Carson graduated as valedictorian in 2004 and was also elected student body president, talked about Eve to Channel 2's Rachel Kim.
"We're devastated. Eve was just the most wonderful young woman you would ever want to know. She was brilliant. She was absolutely beautiful. Everything she did was aimed at helping other people," said Easom. "It's one of the greatest tragedies I've ever known. Eve was one of the young women who could change the world."
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15709664/detail.html
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Report: 'Dark Cloud' Over Probation Agency
That Oversaw Suspects in UNC Student's Death
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
RALEIGH, N.C. — A probation officer assigned to a teenager charged with killing the University of North Carolina's student body president was handling 127 cases without benefit of training, state corrections officials said Wednesday.
A state investigation into the case also found that Laurence Lovette never met with probation officer Chalita Thomas, while the other defendant in the killing, Demario Atwater, had his probation cases handled by 10 different officers.
"This is a dark cloud over our agency," said Robert Lee Guy, director of the state Division of Community Corrections.
Guy said no one has been fired but three senior probation and parole officials in Wake County have been reassigned. Other temporary and permanent disciplinary actions may be forthcoming, he said.
Lovette, 17, and Atwater, 21, both of Durham, are charged with first-degree murder in the March 5 slaying of Eve Carson, who was found shot to death on a street not far from the university's campus in Chapel Hill.
Lovette also is charged in the fatal shooting of a Duke University graduate student.
Lovette pleaded guilty to misdemeanor larceny and breaking and entering on Jan. 16 in Durham, received a two-year suspended sentence and was placed on probation.
In the six weeks that followed, authorities in Durham arrested Lovette several times and charged him with nine different crimes, including burglary, car theft, breaking and entering, and resisting arrest.
He was released after each arrest.
The investigation found that Thomas was working in an atmosphere of constant staff vacancies, case reassignments and a lack of training, the report said. Officials said those conditions led to a variety of deficiencies in the probation case.
The state investigation found that Atwater's probation cases were passed to 10 different staff members who failed to follow procedures between 2005 and 2008. Atwater was twice ordered to be placed under intensive probation, which includes mandatory curfews, weekly contact and warrantless searches, but the officers handling his case never did so.
"It's flat out embarrassing. It's totally unacceptable by our standards — by any agency's standards," Guy said.
Carson was killed a few days after Atwater was first scheduled to appear on a probation violation resulting from firearms charge to which he had pleaded guilty eight months earlier. He was sent to the wrong courtroom and the probation hearing was delayed.
Atwater could face the death penalty if convicted of Carson's death; Lovette cannot be executed because of his age.
Lovette and another man are charged in the killing of Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato, who was found shot to death Jan. 18 in his apartment in Durham — just two days after he was first placed on probation.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,345448,00.html
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Judge Considers Unsealing UNC Student Eve Carson's Autopsy Report
Thursday, May 22, 2008
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina judge says he will decide later whether to unseal the autopsy report of University of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour heard brief arguments Wednesday from the News & Observer of Raleigh. The newspaper has filed a motion asking that the report be publicly released.
The judge ordered another hearing June 11.
Baddour temporarily sealed the report pending his review to determine if releasing it would compromise the ongoing investigation into Carson's death.
The 22-year-old Athens, Ga., native was fatally shot March 5, and her body was found in Chapel Hill about a mile from campus.
The autopsy report could show how many times Carson was shot and identify the weapon used.
Authorities have charged 17-year-old Laurence Lovette and 21-year-old Demario Atwater with first-degree murder.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,357224,00.html
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| all10suspects wrote: | This case is strange. If they charged one of the suspects with another killing then why did they not arrest that person before Eve was killed?
Seems to me the police did a better job in Eve's killing then in the 29 year
old Duke guy that was killed in Jan. If the cops did their job right back in
Jan. maybe Eve would still be alive today. The cops need to treat every case the same! |
The cops had already arrested multiple suspects in the murder of the Duke student. The reason Lovette was charged with murder in his case was because when arrested for Eve Carson's murder, he had the Duke student's cell phone and several other items missing from his apt.
Neither thug should have been free. There were major system failures every step of the way. IF the system gets corrected, their deaths will not be in vain.
That being said, the only thing strange about this case is the realization of how evil and heartless mankind can be.  Lovette came from a solid family. His dad died of natural causes when he was 14. His mother continues to work hard to this day. He was raised in a nice neighborhood. He wasn't in a gang. He was just a cold blooded killer. Put five bullets in the head of his unarmed and fleeing victim. For what? They didn't get any cash or car.
The November robbery charge was after Lovette was released from juvenile detention center. He robbed the same house 5 times. Yet remained free on bail for 1 charge. He is 17yo. There is no correcting him and never was.
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Autopsy of UNC Student Body President Expected in June
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
RALEIGH, N.C. — The autopsy report on Eve Carson, the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found shot to death in March, will be released at the end of June, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall originally asked that the report on Carson's death remain under seal for 60 days, or until June 30. Woodall said he does not intend to ask that the report remain sealed after that, and neither do the lawyers for the two defendants charged in her death.
"These are public records," Woodall said. "I only requested 60 days so some final parts of the investigation can be completed."
The News & Observer of Raleigh had asked a judge to order the autopsy report released. The newspaper's attorney said Wednesday he had withdrawn that motion, and a hearing on the issue scheduled for Wednesday was canceled.
"In light of Mr. Woodall's representations, however, and the imminent expiration of your order, we see no reason to take up the court's time and energy to deal with an issue that apparently will become moot in a few days," attorney Hugh Stevens wrote in a letter to Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour.
Authorities have charged Demario Atwater, 21, and Laurence Lovette, 17, both of Durham, with first-degree murder in Carson's death. Carson, 22, from Athens, Ga., was found March 5 lying in the middle of a residential street in Chapel Hill, about a mile from the university's campus. She had been shot several times, including once in the right temple.
Lovette also is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Abhijit Mahato, 29, a computational mechanics doctoral student at Duke University, originally from Tatangar, India.
Mahato was found dead Jan. 18 inside his apartment a few blocks south of Duke's campus. He had been shot in the forehead at point-blank range as a pillow was held tightly against his face. Authorities have also charged Stephen Oates, 19, of Durham, with murder in Mahato's death.
Also under seal are six search warrants. In April, Baddour declined to release those documents, saying they contained information that could jeopardize the case or threaten the safety of confidential informants. He also said making the documents public could hurt the defendants' right to a fair trial. The Herald-Sun of Durham had asked the court to unseal the warrants.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,365681,00.html
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Court documents: Slain UNC student was kidnapped
(CNN) -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student who was slain this year was kidnapped from her apartment and forced to provide her abductors with access to her bank account before she was shot to death, according to court documents released Friday.
Student body President Eve Carson, 22, was found shot to death in the early hours of March 5 in a suburban neighborhood not far from campus. Two men, Demario James Atwater, 22, and Lawrence Alvin Lovette, 17, have been charged with killing her.
Police initially theorized that Carson may have been carjacked, saying she was extremely busy and sometimes worked in her office in the wee hours.
But according to applications for search warrants unsealed Friday, a confidential informant told police in the days after the death that Atwater had told her he and Lovette entered Carson's home through an open door and forced Carson to accompany them in her car.
The informant said she talked with Atwater after a picture was displayed on television showing someone attempting to use Carson's ATM card at a convenience store two days after Carson's body was found.
The informant said the two men drove Carson to an ATM, obtaining her PIN from her.
"The [informant] learned that Carson was forced into the back seat with Atwater, and Lovette drove Carson's vehicle," the court documents said. "That information is consistent with video footage taken from an ATM camera on that date."
The witness told police that Atwater said the two got about $1,400 from Carson's account. Bank records show that was approximately the amount taken from the account over a two-day period, the documents said.
And the informant said that both suspects shot Carson, according to one of the affidavits. "This information was corroborated by crime scene search information that two separate weapons were used in the homicide," the documents said.
A partial shoeprint was found on a bank receipt Carson's Toyota Highlander, documenting a withdrawal made from her account by Atwater and Lovette, court documents said.
The documents said police believe that Carson was subjected to a sexual assault "of an unknown nature," and they asked for a search warrant to collect DNA swabs from the suspects.
But Orange County, North Carolina, District Attorney Jim Woodall said Friday that the collection and testing done on Carson's body was routine and that authorities do not believe she was sexually assaulted.
In executing the search warrants, police seized numerous pairs of shoes from both suspects.
Carson was a pre-medicine student double-majoring in political science and biology. She was a recipient of the university's prestigious Morehead Scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, UNC has said.
A senior and a native of Athens, Georgia, Carson was last seen about 1:30 a.m. March 5 by her roommates, who were leaving and invited her along. Carson was studying and declined, saying she had work to do, police said. Officers found her body in the street after neighbors reported hearing shots about 5 a.m.
Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. surrendered without incident after a four-hour standoff, police said.
Demario James Atwater, 21, at his bail arraignment in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Unsealed warrants show that Eve Carson was abducted and then shot by both men.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/27/carson.warrants/index.html
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Warrants: College Student Kidnapped From Home, Robbed, Killed
POSTED: 2:26 pm EDT June 27, 2008
UPDATED: 5:59 pm EDT June 27, 2008
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. -- Search warrants unsealed Friday describe what may have been the final terrifying moments in the life of a promising college student: Kidnapped while studying at home, taken in her own vehicle to be robbed at an ATM, and shot multiple times.
Despite strong objections by defense attorneys, Superior Court Judge R. Allen Baddour released six warrants that helped police arrest Laurence Lovette, 17, and Demario Atwater, 22. Both are charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Eve Carson, the former student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lovette's attorney, Karen Bethea-Shields, said the warrants largely rely on hearsay from a confidential informant that could unfairly taint potential jurors in the high-profile case.
"Things that you get, you must make sure that you understand these are just allegations and evidence will come from the courtroom," she said.
Jonathan Brown, a defense attorney for Atwater, said: "This is obviously a terrible tragedy, and we have great sympathy for the family and friends of Eve Carson. At this time, we just want to have the legal system do its job and avoid any rush to judgment."
The warrants contradict the original accounts of the slaying, which first appeared to be a random carjacking in Chapel Hill.
One warrant said a confidential informant told police that Lovette and Atwater entered Carson's home through an open door, took her and her vehicle to an ATM, and used her pin to withdraw $1,400 from her bank account.
Investigators found a Bank of America receipt from Carson's account near her vehicle when it was found a day after she was killed. There was a partial shoe print on the receipt, and investigators said they have seized several pairs of gym shoes from the suspects' homes, the warrants said.
The informant said Carson was shot multiple times by Lovette and was later shot by Atwater. An affidavit signed by State Bureau of Investigation agent Brian Flemming said the informant's statements were corroborated because two separate weapons were used in the shootings.
A warrant also says police have probable cause to believe "sexual assault of an unknown nature occurred," though neither Lovette nor Atwater has been charged with such an assault. Blood, hair and saliva samples have been taken from the suspects.
Carson was found dead March 5, laying in the middle of a residential street in Chapel Hill about a mile from campus. Police have said the Athens, Ga. native had been shot multiple times, including once in the right temple. The autopsy report remains sealed but was expected to be released next week.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/16729265/detail.html
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Autopsy: Slain North Carolina Student Leader Killed by Shotgun Blast
Monday, June 30, 2008
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The slain student body president at the University of North Carolina likely raised her right arm to protect herself from a single shotgun blast that tore through her hand before striking her in the head, according to an autopsy report released Monday.
Eve Carson was shot four other times, according to the report from the Office of the State Medical Examiner that simply lists her cause of death as "multiple gunshot wounds." The 22-year-old from Athens, Ga., was found March 5 lying on a street not far from the university's campus.
Prosecutors have charged two Durham men — Laurence Lovette, 17, and Demario Atwater, 22 — with first-degree murder in her death. Lovette and another man are also charged with the January murder of Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato.
The report on Carson's death was unsealed and made public Monday, weeks after its completion. Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall had requested it remain shielded from public review so that investigators could complete their work on the case.
The report said Carson was shot five times, including once in the right cheek by a "full metal jacketed bullet" and in the right shoulder by a similar bullet that penetrated her right lung and traveled into her small intestine. She was also shot in the right upper arm and in the right buttock
But the most vicious wound came from a shotgun blast that struck her right hand before impacting her head and brain, where the medical examiner recovered a "numerous birdshot pellets and a plastic shot cup."
"These wounds most likely represent a single shot with the hand acting as an intermediate target," the report said.
Woodall said he couldn't comment on the autopsy report in detail except to say it showed a handgun and a shotgun were used in the attack on Carson.
"It was the primary reason we asked that it be sealed" during the investigation, Woodall said, declining further comment.
The autopsy report said Carson was wearing a light gray T-shirt, dark blue sweat pants and light blue, gray and white athletic shoes at the time of her death. She was also wearing a yellow metal necklace with a small locket and a white paper wristband on her left wrist that said "Be true" and "Nike."
In court documents released last week, authorities said a confidential informant told police that Atwater said he and Lovette entered Carson's home through an open door, took her and her vehicle to an ATM, and ended up withdrawing about $1,400 over two days. Investigators confirmed the dollar figure by reviewing Carson's bank records, according to the records.
The informant also said Carson was shot by both suspects. An affidavit signed by an investigator said the informant's statements were corroborated because two separate weapons were used in the shooting.
Lovette and Stephen Oates, 19, of Durham, are charged in Mahato's death. His autopsy showed the 29-year-old had been shot once at point-blank range in the forehead.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,373599,00.html
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Gwen, thanks so much for this and all the articles you post.
This case is so sad. Eve Carson was a special person who gave much of her time to others. To kill her for $1,400, how disgusting.
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| pax wrote: | Gwen, thanks so much for this and all the articles you post.
This case is so sad. Eve Carson was a special person who gave much of her time to others. To kill her for $1,400, how disgusting. |
Y/W, pax.
It really is such a tragedy for someone like her to have died the way she did. It breaks my heart for her family...
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DA will seek death penalty in UNC murder case
Hillsborough, N.C. — Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall said Monday he will seek the death penalty against one of two men charged in the shooting death of last year's student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Demario James Atwater, 22, was arrested March 12 and charged with first-degree murder in the March 5 shooting death of Eve Marie Carson, 22, a senior from Athens, Ga.
Police found her body on a residential street about a half-mile from the UNC campus in the early morning hours while responding to reports of gunshots.
"This is the toughest decision any prosecutor has to make," Woodall said, adding that his decision was not a quick one and that he believes Carson's family stands behind it.
"Her family, I will just say, will support the state," he said. "They want closure. It's been horrible. They have to live with it every day for the rest of their lives."
Woodall told Superior Court Judge Thomas H. Lock that Atwater and Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. shot Carson five times. Lovette, investigators believe, shot her four times with a .25-caliber handgun, and Atwater shot her once in the head with a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun, he said.
"He (Atwater) had been seen with that weapon prior to this crime," Woodall told Lock.
Investigators found the handgun broken into pieces and there appeared to be attempts to dismantle the shotgun, Woodall said. But he did not say where the weapons were found.
Physical evidence also linked Atwater to the shotgun and linked Lovette to being inside Carson's Toyota Highlander.
Carson had been at home studying, Woodall said, and evidence showed she had opened an e-mail at 3:35 a.m.
Atwater and Lovette told various people they had been in the area on foot near Carson's home looking for someone to rob, Woodall said.
"Essentially, they walked up Friendly Lane, they could see a person in that house, and the blinds on the windows of that house were raised that morning," he said.
Woodall said Atwater told different stories about what happened next. In one, Atwater said he and Lovette kidnapped Carson's from inside her home. In another, he said they acted as if their car had broken down and took her from outside her home and stole her SUV.
"Based on the appearance of her residence, the state, at this time, believes she was probably abducted just outside her home," Woodall said.
They used Carson's ATM card to withdraw $1,400 from her bank account. They made a withdrawal shortly before 4 a.m. at a Bank of America in Chapel Hill. Woodall said, and they also used it at other locations in Durham.
Woodall said they drove around for a while before going to Hillcrest Drive, where police found Carson's body around 5 a.m.
There were no clear statements about what exactly happened before Carson's death, he said.
Last month, a grand jury handed up additional indictments against both men, including first-degree kidnapping, armed robbery, larceny and possession of stolen goods.
Federal sources tell WRAL News that federal investigators are also looking at carjacking charges, which can carry a death sentence if prosecutors can prove the crime was committed during a homicide.
Since the death penalty was reinstated in North Carolina in 1977, no one has been sentenced to death in Orange County. The last person executed for a crime there was John Breeze in January 1948.
Lovette, 17, who is also charged in the Jan. 18 shooting death of Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato, is not eligible for the death penalty. A 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibits the execution of anyone who was under age 18 at the time of a crime.
If convicted in Carson's death, the maximum sentence Lovette could face is life in prison without parole.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3358693/
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Man Indicted In Slaying Of Former Athens Valedictorian
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A federal grand jury has indicted one of two men accused in the slaying of the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Monday's indictment against 22-year-old Demario Atwater is on charges of carjacking resulting in death and carrying and using firearms during and in relation to carjacking. Federal prosecutors could seek a death sentence.
State prosecutors had already charged Atwater with murder in the March 5 death of 22-year-old Eve Carson, of Athens, Ga.
Also charged in state court is 17-year-old Laurence Lovette. He can't be sentenced to death because the crime was committed before he turned 18.
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey must approve seeking a death sentence in the federal case. Prosecutors said Monday he has yet to do so.
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