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Siddalee
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Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:52 pm |
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Hunt Is on for Killer of Auburn University Freshman Murdered
AUBURN, Ala. — A manhunt was under way on Wednesday for the killer of an Auburn University freshman who was shot to death the previous night near campus.
Auburn police said they were investigating the murder of 18-year-old Lauren A. Burk of Marietta, Ga. She was a freshman pledge with the school's Delta Gamma sorority, sources told FOX News.
Police were called to the scene of an injured female on North College Street at 9:08 p.m. Tuesday, where they found Burk gravely wounded. They transported her to the hospital, East Alabama Medical Center, where she died from a single gunshot wound.
Authorities were alerted to a vehicle fire shortly thereafter, at about 9:27 p.m. in the Hinton Field parking lot, and learned the car belonged to Burk. The vehicle, a 2001 black Honda Civic, was found burned and gutted near campus, according to MyFOXAL.
Police spokesman Jim Jackson told the Alabama FOX affiliate station that the murder happened near but not on campus and school officials are in the process of notifying students of the fact that they're not in danger.
Police said an investigation is under way.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335211,00.html
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But Aruba is so very dangerous..... 
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Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:49 pm |
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| skepticynic wrote: | | But Aruba is so very dangerous..... |
Everywhere is very dangerous if you aren't careful. I think we all realize that statistically, Aruba is not a very dangerous place. I'd hate to see Lauren's death be used in that manner.
She was a Delta Gamma at Auburn University. It is a very sad case and I'm sure it's traumitizing for all of her friends and family. Auburn isn't considered a very dangerous town, either.
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Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:00 pm |
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Walton Grad Found Dead Near Auburn
POSTED: 1:48 pm EST March 5, 2008
UPDATED: 5:16 pm EST March 5, 2008
AUBURN, Ala. -- A graduate of Walton High School in Cobb County was found shot to death Tuesday near Auburn University.
Police said about 9:00 p.m. they responded to reports of an injured female on Alabama Highway 147 a few miles north of the campus. When they arrived, they found Lauren Burk, 18, suffering from a single gunshot wound. The Auburn freshman was taken to the East Alabama Medical Center where she later died.
About 30 minutes after police found Burk they discovered her 2001 black Honda Civic on fire in a campus parking lot.
Burk, a member of Delta Gamma sorority, graduated last year from Walton High School in Marietta.
Students at Walton High School Wednesday told Channel 2's Ross Cavitt the school was devastated.
"Everyone's devastated," said student Chelsea Rowson. "The whole school's talking about it and nobody really knows what happened so it's really depressing."
"It's a horrible thing that happened, so it's a tough thing for the school. We have a close-knit community feeling here so it's a hard thing for us to endure when we lose somebody," said Walton High student Zack Hogue.
Auburn officials in a statement on the school's web site said they are increasing campus security. "Auburn Police Division and Auburn University officials are taking all necessary precautions, including increasing police presence, to ensure the safety of our students and employees," the statement reads. "Meanwhile, students should be careful not just on campus, but within the larger community, and be alert at all times."
On a Facebook page dedicated to Lauren, Ansley Wright wrote, "Lauren had such a bright and beautiful soul with a hunger for a happy and loving life. I know her happiness will be carried on in the hearts of everyone who ever knew Lauren."
Blair Haskins wrote, "Lauren was so beautiful inside and out. She certainly touched each and every person that knew her and she will never be forgotten."
Police said they have no suspects.
Several parents who have children at Auburn told Channel 2 they were furious the school did not put out a campus-wide alert. It's an alert system parents like Felecia Caballero subscribe to. "Oh, it makes me sick to my stomach because, of course, I'm not going to bring her home but at the same time I want her to be protected and if they have a system in place to let an alert go out -- use it."
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15503255/detail.html
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Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:37 pm |
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VERY VERY pretty girl. 
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| SavannahStar wrote: | | VERY VERY pretty girl. |
You should see the pictures on the facebook group. I don't think the girl could've taken a bad one, every single one is gorgeous.
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UPDATED: 9:35 p.m. March 05, 2008
Friends shocked over Auburn freshman's shooting death
By KAREN ROSEN, TIM EBERLY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/05/08
Auburn University freshman Lauren A. Burk died after being found shot a few miles from the campus in Alabama, police and school officials said.
Auburn police discovered Burk, 18, of Marietta, suffering from a single gunshot wound, on Ala. 147 north of town. She later died Tuesday night at East Alabama Medical Center.
engulfed in flames at the Hinton Field parking lot near a dormitory on campus.
Burk graduated last year from Walton High School in Marietta, said Jim Hardin, director of the Auburn University Office of Judicial Affairs. She was a member of Delta Gamma sorority and did not live on campus, Hardin said.
Burk's family and friends dealt with the news Wednesday by gathering at her family's Cobb home.
"It's worse than losing a child to a car wreck," said family friend Dawn Barrs, whose sons also attended Walton High and knew Burk. "It's just a sincere tragedy — a nightmare."
Police had made no arrests as of late Wednesday afternoon, Hardin said.
Walton student Greg Greene met Burk in math class when he was a freshman.
"She was the first older person ever to talk to me and be a friend of mine," he said. She was "probably the greatest girl I know."
"I just remember her as always having a ton of friends," he said.
She played lacrosse, he said. He last talked to her about a month ago.
"She told me how she didn't like Auburn that much," he said. "She missed high school and she missed all of her friends in high school."
He found out about her death when he was talking to a counselor and another student who had just learned of Burk's death came in crying.
"I didn't really know how to react," he said. "It's hard to think of someone getting murdered."
Word about her death filtered out Wednesday at Walton. Senior Monique Osigbeme heard the news as she was on her way to compete in a track meet.
"She was always smiling, always laughing and happy," she said. "She had a really nice smile and really pretty brown hair. Oh my God, that's really sad."
Principal Tom Higgins said, "She was a great leader, a great kid. She was a very, very good student."
Barrs, who went on a spring break trip to Panama City, Fla., with Burk and other parents and students last year, said Burk stood out from other kids her own age because she seemed more mature.
"She was level-headed and a very responsible student," Barrs said.
Barrs said Burk and her longtime boyfriend attended Auburn together, and that Burk's older sister also is an Auburn student.
Family members told Barrs that the couple were together about two hours before Burk's killing, but Burk went to the library to study with friends "and never made it there," Barrs said.
Officials at Auburn, which has many metro Atlantans among its nearly 25,000 students, issued a statement saying there is "no indication of additional danger to campus or student safety."
Burk's sorority also released a statement that was posted on the university's Web site.
"Considering the unexpected and disturbing nature of the situation, the women of Delta Gamma have reacted with immense concern," the statement read. "... Delta Gammas across the country offer hope and friendship to Lauren's family and all who have been affected by this tragedy."
Copy from Walton High yearbook
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/03/05/auburn_0306_web1.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
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‘She was a great, beautiful person’
Published: 03/06/2008
By Elizabeth Farnsworth
Marietta Daily Journal Staff Writer
MARIETTA - A 2007 Walton High School graduate died of a gunshot wound Tuesday night in Opelika, Ala. Lauren Burk, 18, was a freshman at Auburn University.
Her death is being investigated as a homicide.
Opelika Police said they received a call of an injured woman on Highway 147 in Opelika about 9 p.m. Tuesday that led them to Ms. Burk. She was taken by ambulance to East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, where she died, police said.
Not long after, Auburn University police found Ms. Burk's car, a 2001 black Honda Civic, on fire in the Hinton Field parking lot, yards away from the dorm of the girl's sorority, Delta Gamma.
Auburn officials said Ms. Burk lived off campus. They said Wednesday they had increased police presence at the school of 24,000 students, 120 miles from Marietta.
"We are so saddened by this situation, words simply aren't adequate," Auburn University President Jay Gogue said. "This is a close-knit community that rarely experiences such a tragedy, so our heartfelt prayers and thoughts go out to Lauren's community in Marietta, and especially to her family."
Gordon and Elaine Rondeau, of east Cobb, are longtime advocates of crime prevention. After their daughter was murdered in 1994, they started the Renee Olubunmi Rondeau Peace Foundation to help crime victims and to spur efforts to prevent crime.
"The woman at Auburn had a right to be where she was," Ms. Rondeau said. "She had a right to expect that she would be safe. We in America should have that right to be wherever we want and be safe."
Police are continuing to follow up on every lead, Capt. Tom Stopher of the Auburn police department said.
"We're going to work around the clock until we are successful in this case," he said.
Police have established an anonymous tip line (334-501-7337), and the Alabama governor's office has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to a suspect in the case.
efarnsworth@mdjonline.com
http://mdjonline.com/content/index/showcontentitem/area/1/section/15/item/106549.html
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Lauren: talented, smart, loved
By Elizabeth Farnsworth
Marietta Daily Journal Staff Writer
MARIETTA - She was outgoing, fun, loved classic rock and played guitar. The pretty 18-year-old was a perennial on homecoming court and got along with everyone, friends said.
The news of Lauren Burk's violent murder has shaken the secure world of those who knew and grew up with her in the affluent neighborhoods of East Cobb and at Walton High School, where she graduated last spring.
Burk was found with a single gunshot wound on the side of the road in Auburn, Ala., on Tuesday night, about five miles away from the campus of Auburn University, where she was a freshman.
Those at her home high school remember her well. The news of her death has rocked the Walton community, an academically prestigious high school.
Knox Rawson, a freshman at Georgia Southern University, had known Ms. Burk since fifth grade. He grew up with her in Heritage Trace neighborhood. Rawson said he can't believe this happened.
"She had extremely good taste in music, liked classic rock. She was always smiling - one of the nicest people I've ever met," Rawson said. "She was very creative. She would hang out and play guitar, watch movies. We hung out at her house a lot because her mom was really cool."
Inside Walton High School, a community is grieving.
"She was a great kid. A real sweetheart," said Walton Principal Dr. Tom Higgins.
Angela Bare was Ms. Burk's counselor for two years at Walton and was close to her. She said Ms. Burk was outgoing, friendly and an outstanding student. The 18-year-old was president of the Super Senior Spirit Club at Walton last year. Her younger brother, Chad, is now a junior at Walton.
"She had a really gentle spirit and was very well respected by faculty and peers," Ms. Bare said. "She was a great, beautiful person, inside and out."
Ms. Bare described Walton, which has more than 2,600 students, as a close-knit community where kids know each other well, despite the school's large size. Counselors saw students throughout the day on Wednesday, Ms. Bare said. Teachers have been asked to report any students they see who need assistance.
At Auburn University, a fellow Marietta high school student said she's still in shock. Elizabeth Chandler graduated from Walton with Ms. Burk last spring. Both of the girls headed to Auburn, where Ms. Burk was majoring in graphic design.
"Everyone at Walton knew who Lauren Burk was," Ms. Chandler said as she left an on-campus prayer vigil at Auburn. "She was always on homecoming court-she was so free-spirited and knew all types of people. The thing is, she never really tried to be popular. She just was. Everyone just flocked to her."
Walton students and college sorority sisters gathered on Wednesday afternoon to remember Ms. Burk at the spot where her destroyed car was found, the 18-year-old Ms. Chandler said.
"I knew her though school and loved her. People are definitely shaken around here."
efarnsworth@mdjonline.com
http://mdjonline.com/content/index/showcontentitem/area/1/section/15/item/106550.html
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Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:43 pm |
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Lauren Burk was found (apparently) beside the road about 9 pm, victim of a gunshot.
Burk's car was found burning on campus, in a dorm parking lot about 30 minutes later. The dorm houses Delta Gamma sorority, which Burk belonged to. (there are no sorority houses at Auburn University)
Burk lived off campus and not in that dorm where her car was found burning.
Someone shot her several miles from campus and left her beside the road, then drove her car to the dorm on campus and set it afire OR someone one shot her, drove her (or with her) off campus several miles in her car to drop her alongside the road then drove her car back to campus to the dorm parking lot. Or her car was parked in the dorm parking lot, she drove away from there with someone who shot her and that someone returned to her car at the dorm parking lot and set it afire.
I'll bet her boyfriend has been interrogated for hours by LE. I wonder if the library has security cameras and can support his claim of alibi.
Someone who knew her and knew where her car was either already parked, or parked it after she was shot, near the dorm where her sorority is located, is most likely to have shot her. Not a stranger.
(My husband and I are both grads of Auburn University. Walton HS was the school for our district when we first moved to Marietta in '83. Our daughter attended Walton as a freshman, then Pope HS thereafter when it was completed and we were redistricted)
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Man Under Arrest In Alabama; Police Say Somehow Connected To Lauren Burk's Death
POSTED: 8:01 am EST March 7, 2008
UPDATED: 6:35 pm EST March 7, 2008
PHENIX CITY, Ala. -- A man is under arrest in Phenix City, Al. following a high speed chase Friday. He was wanted on a robbery arrest warrant out of Columbus, Ga. A Phenix City investigator tells Channel 2 they found some kind of evidence on him that somehow links this man to the murder of Auburn student Lauren Burk. Stay tuned to WSBTV.com for more breaking news in the case.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15523787/detail.html
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Robbery suspect expected to be charged in Auburn killing
By TIM EBERLY, JEFFRY SCOTT
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/08/08
PHENIX CITY, Ala. — An Alabama man arrested Friday is believed to be connected to the murder of Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk of Marietta.
The Journal-Constitution learned Saturday morning that Courtney Lockhart, 22, was booked into the Russell County jail in Alabama on charges of first-degree robbery, according to the booking register. He is being held on a $250,000 bond.
The Opileka-Auburn News, citing multiple sources, reported Saturday that Lockhart was expected to be charged this morning in connection with Burk's murder.
Columbus-based WRBL-TV reported that Lockhart admitted to investigators that he committed at least five armed robberies in recent weeks.
The AJC's efforts to reach local law enforcement officials at 8:45 a.m. Saturday were unsuccessful. A news conference has been scheduled for 11 a.m. to update the status of the case. http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/03/08/auburnarrest_0309.html
I hope they've got their man. I also hope he's connected to another very similar case in Auburn:
Lori Ann Slesinski, 24, an Auburn grad, has been missing from Auburn since June 10, 2006. On June 14 her car was found burning on Dekalb Street (in Auburn). http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/slesinski_lori.html
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So sad. I wonder why the burning of cars.
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| pax wrote: | | So sad. I wonder why the burning of cars. |
Maybe he was trying to conceal evidence on or inside her car that could have indentified him. She was abducted at her car, but don't know yet if he set the car on fire then or came back to the car after he'd left her beside the road a few miles away.
He has been charged now with her murder.
Suspect Charged in Auburn Student Death
By DESIREE HUNTER – 31 minutes ago
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Police arrested a man and charged him with capital murder in the abduction and shooting death of an Auburn University student, officials announced Saturday.
Courtney Lockhart, 23, was arrested in Phenix City on Friday and charged in the killing of Lauren Burk, an 18-year-old freshman from Marietta, Ga., said Auburn Assistant Police Chief Thomas Dawson.
Lockhart was arrested by Phenix City police at a traffic stop and later charged with three capital counts accusing him of murder along with kidnapping, robbery and attempted rape, Dawson said.
Burk was found shot on the side of a road about 5 miles from campus Tuesday night. She died later a hospital. Her car was found that night burning in a campus parking lot.
The charges indicate Burk was abducted at random, but it was not immediately clear where she was attacked or when she was shot.
Forensic reports found that Burk had not been sexually assaulted, Auburn police said.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jt4CDp2FLs7DkBg6no2G3dT278HwD8V9C0VO0
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Thanks LovelyPigeon. So many questions and so terribly sad.
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Auburn Police Announce Arrest in Student Murder Case
Saturday, March 08, 2008
A suspect in the murder of an 18-year-old Auburn University student has been arrested, Auburn, Ala., police said at a Saturday morning news conference.
The suspect, identified as Courtney Lockhart, 23, was arrested Friday after a traffic stop in Phenix City, Ala., on the Georgia border, Auburn Assistant Police Chief Thomas Dawson said.
Lockhart faces charges of capital murder, which carries the death penalty, Dawson said, though he declined to say how police tied Lockhart to Lauren Burk's death.
Burk was found shot and wounded Tuesday night on a state highway a few miles off campus. She died later at a hospital. At about the same time, her car was found on campus engulfed in flames.
Auburn police and numerous other agencies had formed a task force to investigate the killing, and they identified Lockhart as the prime suspect through a photograph obtained Wednesday, Dawson said, though he wouldn't say how the photo was obtained.
Lockhart was arrested Friday by Phenix City police, who then contacted Auburn police. It isn't clear whether Phenix police were previously aware Lockhart was a suspect in the Auburn case.
"They saw things and called us and everything fell into place at that point," Dawson said, without elaborating.
"I'd call it a blessing from God," he said, "and then I'd call it good police work all around."
Lockhart also faces charges of kidnapping, robbery and attempted rape, Dawson said. He didn't identify a motive and declined to say conclusively whether Burk had been targeted or the victim of a random crime. "I don’t believe he targeted her for that long, if he targeted her at all."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336151,00.html
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Robbery suspect faces murder charges in Auburn killing
By TIM EBERLY, JEFFRY SCOTT
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/08/08
AUBURN, Ala. — One neighbor who grew up with Courtney Lockhart in his eastern Alabama town describes him as a troublemaker who liked to pick on younger boys.
Another says Lockhart seemed like a good kid who mowed his family's lawn and always said hello to her at the Wal-Mart.
Both neighbors, however, were taken aback to learn that the 23-year-old from Smiths Station, Ala., had been charged Saturday with capital murder in a case everyone in town had heard about — the shooting death of Marietta's Lauren Burk, a freshman at Auburn University.
"That's crazy," said another neighbor, Thomas Moore, 19, who said Lockhart bullied him as a youngster, too. "I wouldn't have believed that."
Lockhart's arrest came three days after Burk was found fatally wounded Tuesday night along a highway not far from the university.
Burk's murder drew enough interest that Auburn police assembled a task force of local, state and federal investigators to find her killer.
But it was police officers from Phenix City who caught and arrested Lockhart on Friday. Phenix City is about a 35-mile drive from the Auburn campus.
"I wouldn't call it a lucky break," Auburn police Assistant Chief Tommy Dawson said Saturday. "I would call it a blessing from God."
Police held a news conference in Auburn late Saturday morning to announce that Lockhart has been charged with three crimes: capital murder during a kidnapping, capital murder during a robbery and capital murder during an attempted rape.
The announcement came less than six hours before Burk was set to be memorialized at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta. Her funeral is 5:30 p.m. today at Marietta's Temple Kol Emeth.
Lockhart's case will be presented to a grand jury on May 5. He is being held in the Russell County jail but is expected to be moved next week to the jail in Lee County, where records show he served time in 2002 for harassment.
Lockhart did not know the 18-year-old Burk, and he acted alone, police said. Aside from that, police are releasing few details.
Dawson would not say how investigators linked Lockhart to the crime. He did say police have "a lot of evidence," but declined to elaborate.
"We have the right individual in jail," Dawson said. "I'm 100 percent sure of that."
Burk's slaying drew national interest, compounded by a similar storyline that was developing at another quaint Southern college town: the murder of a young co-ed and student leader at University of North Carolina. CNN carried live feeds from 11 a.m. Saturday news conferences involving both cases.
Both women were from north Georgia and were shot to death, though police say the homicides are not linked.
Burk's family has kept mum this week, leaving interviews to a family spokeswoman, Kathy Singleton. Minutes after the formal announcement of Lockhart's arrest, Singleton said Burk's family "feels relieved."
"On the day of Lauren's service, it's a comfort to know that the police have moved so swiftly on this," she said.
Lockhart was arrested late Friday morning after he led Phenix City police on a high-speed chase. He declined comment as officers walked him out of the Phenix City police station and put him in the back of a cruiser on his way to jail late Friday night.
A traffic officer pulled him over for speeding. But Lockhart took off in his silver Chrysler Sebring when two other investigators were called to the scene. Backup was brought in because Lockhart's vehicle matched the description of one that was involved in a recent robbery, Phenix City police Lt. Curt Lewis said.
Lockhart didn't get far. Police believe his engine blew out, forcing him to get out of the car and run, Lewis said.
That chase, too, was short. With an officer close behind him, Lockhart stopped, hit the ground and put his hands behind his back, Lewis said.
Lockhart later confessed to robbing an elderly woman last week outside a Wal-Mart in Phenix City, as well as four other robberies in the area, Lewis said.
Before Friday's arrest, the task force assigned to the case was making progress on its own, Dawson said. Investigators obtained a photo of Lockhart shortly after the murder, and had it enhanced with the help of NASA.
They just didn't know who he was.
The photo might have come from a local gas station's surveillance footage.
The day after Burk's murder, investigators went to the Farmville Mini-Mart, near where Burk was found fatally wounded, and took photos of surveillance footage that showed a man buying gas, said the store's manager, Anna Tidwell.
But Tidwell said she didn't know whether the man captured by the store's camera was Lockhart.
Residents on Lee Road, meanwhile, are left to wonder what's to come for the young man who reportedly played high school football and later went into the military.
"I'm in shock. I really am," neighbor T.J. Moore said. "Just because there's never been anything negative going on over there. They seem to be a nice family."
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/03/08/auburnarrest_0309.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
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Mom of Auburn Slaying Suspect Apologizes
Mar 9, 12:30 PM (ET)
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - The mother of the man charged with killing an Auburn University student said her son was an Iraq war veteran who was changed after his service, and offered an apology to the freshman's family.
Catherine Williams, the mother of suspect Courtney Lockhart, made the apology to Lauren Burk's family in an interview with Columbus, Ga., television station WTVM.
"I am sorry that Courtney did that. ... First let me say I'm sorry to the Burk family for Courtney taking, taking their child. ... My heart goes out to her family," Williams said in the tearful interview.
But she also said her son did not confess anything to her.
Lockhart, 23, was arrested Friday in Phenix City, Ala., and was charged with capital murder in Burk's abduction and shooting death. Police would not say what led them to charge him in her death.
The 18-year-old from Marietta, Ga., was found shot on the side of an off-campus road Tuesday night and her car was found burning in a campus parking lot.
Williams told the television station that her son hasn't been the same after serving 16 months in Iraq. She says her son had been living with her in Smiths Station, Ala., since returning from the war.
The Burk family likely did not see the Saturday evening TV interview, family spokeswoman Kathy Singleton said.
"The family didn't watch any TV last night. I honestly don't know what their reaction is," Singleton said. "My heart breaks for anyone that's attached to the whole tragic situation. It's hard on everyone."
One number for Catherine Williams in Smiths Station was unlisted. No one immediately returned a message Sunday from The Associated Press at another listing for Cathy Williams in the same town.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080309/D8VA12M81.html
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One violent act hurts so many people and families.
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Suspect confessed to murder of Auburn student, police say
Posted by Birmingham News March 10, 2008 3:51 PM
Courtney Lockhart confessed to shooting Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk, according to court documents read at his initial court appearance this afternoon in Opelika.
Lockhart told police he abducted Burk on campus, attempted to rob and rape her, and shot her with a pistol, according an affidavit signed by a police detective and read in court.
Lockhart, who is charged with three counts of capital murder, was bound over to a grand jury.
Stan Diel
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2008/03/suspect_confessed_to_murder_of.html
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Glad they've got a confession. Hopefully everyone can be spared a trial.
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| pax wrote: | | Glad they've got a confession. Hopefully everyone can be spared a trial. |
I hope so too, pax.
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Burk's Accused Killer Suspect In Georgia Crimes
POSTED: 6:34 pm EDT March 10, 2008
UPDATED: 7:34 pm EDT March 10, 2008
NEWNAN, Ga. -- Courtney Lockhart faces murder charges in Auburn, Ala, in connection with the death of student Lauren Burk. He made his first court appearance Monday.
Meanwhile, police in Georgia suspect Lockhart in a number of violent crimes in both LaGrange and Newnan.
Officers in Newnan believe Lockhart attempted to carjack an elderly victim just hours before his capture in Phenix City, Ala.
"The crime we were investigating here was a woman confronted in a parking lot by an armed man who attempted to get her car," Deputy Chief Rodney Riggs told Channel 2.
Newnan police wouldn't release that portion of a Wal-Mart surveillance videotape but did show Lockhart's arrival and him allegedly ditching the car.
They said he walked toward his elderly victim, attacked her with a pistol, pushed her down in the car but realized witnesses were calling police so he bailed out. He then jumped into his own car and left, police said.
"At that point we called the Lee County Sheriff's Office to assist us in locating the car and registered owner, and we were also aware of the Auburn investigation going on with the murder of the student there," Riggs told Channel 2's Jodie Fleischer.
The car was registered in Lee County, Ala. Within a half-hour of posting a lookout, police arrested Lockhart after they said he took off during a traffic stop.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15558069/detail.html
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Attorney For Alleged Killer Of Auburn Student Lauren Burk Plans Insanity Defense
Lawyers for Courtney Collins have filed documents claiming mental illness.
AUBURN, Al. -- An attorney is preparing an insanity defense for a man accused in the slaying of Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk.
Defense attorney Joel Collins has filed court documents that describe Courtney Larrell Lockhart as "suffering from some mental disease," saying he "lacks the ability to understand the difference between right and wrong."
Lockhart, 23, of the Smiths community has been charged with capital murder in the March 4 death of the 18-year-old student from Marietta, Ga.
District Court Judge Russell Bush has ordered an evaluation of Lockhart by a state psychiatrist or psychologist before setting a trial date. He also issued a gag order covering parties in the case.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/16226703/detail.html
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Lauren Burk Murder Suspect Pleads Not Guilty
By Amy Weaver, Opelika-Auburn News
Defense attorneys for Courtney L. Lockhart requested the right to amend any of the not-guilty pleas entered Wednesday in Lee County Circuit Court, pending the results of a mental evaluation.
Lockhart, 23, of Smiths Station, pleaded not guilty to all four charges against him at his arraignment Wednesday afternoon, including three capital murder charges related to the March 4 death of Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk and a robbery charge stemming from a robbery at the Short Stop in Smiths Station.
Jeremy Armstrong, one of Lockhart’s attorneys, asked Lee County Circuit Court Judge Jacob A. Walker III to reserve the right to amend any of the pleas to not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect after his client undergoes a mental evaluation by state professionals, as well as their own expert. Walker agreed.
Lockhart’s lead defense attorney Joel Collins said in court Wednesday, the evaluation, which was requested at the end of April, had not been completed. A gag order, also requested in April, was issued by District Court Judge Russell K. Bush within a week of the request.
The documents requesting the mental evaluation state that it is made in an effort to prove Lockhart is not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. The Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation will conduct the test, but court documents do not indicate when it will take place.
Lockhart remains in custody at the Lee County Detention Center. There is no bond issued for capital murder cases. Wednesday, he stood quietly between his attorneys while Walker read all four indictments.
More than a dozen of his family members and friends sat quietly in the courtroom behind him.
A grand jury indicted Lockhart in May on charges of capital murder during a robbery, capital murder during a kidnapping and capital murder during an attempted rape, as well as the separate robbery charge.
Walker said Lockhart’s presence is required for all future proceedings. He also said he will schedule a status conference, potentially for late December or early January, to inform the court how the case is proceeding.
Burk, an 18-year-old from Marietta, Ga., was found on North College Street between Lee Road 72 and U.S. Highway 280 shortly after 9 p.m. March 4. She was transported to East Alabama Medical Center, where she later died as a result of a single gunshot wound. Her car, a 2001 black Honda Civic, was found engulfed in flames about 9:30 p.m. in the Hinton Field parking lot on campus.
http://www.nbc13.com/gulfcoastwest/vtm/news.apx.-content-articles-VTM-2008-06-05-0002.html
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