Hunt On For College Student's Killer
$10,000 Reward Offered For Clues To Auburn University Freshman's Shooting, Car Torching
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This undated photo provided by The Auburn Plainsman, the Auburn University student newspaper, shows Lauren Burk, a freshman at Auburn who was found shot Tuesday night, March 4, 2008, along a highway several miles north of the campus in Auburn, Ala. Burk died later at East Alabama Medical Center. (AP Photo/The Auburn Plainsman)
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Flowers lay near the parking spot that Auburn Unviersity freshman Lauren Burk's car was found ablaze Monday night. Friends and family members held a prayer vigil on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 in Auburn, Ala. Burk was found near campus with a gun shot wound Monday night. (AP Photo/Todd J. Van Emst)
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Jay Seyfried, center, orange shirt, talks to friends and family about Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk during a prayer vigil on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 in Auburn, Ala. Burk was found near campus with a gun shot wound Monday night. Seyfried was friends with Burk in high school and college. (AP Photo/Todd J. Van Emst)
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Freshman Lauren A. Burk was found fatally shot on a highway just before her car was discovered in flames on campus Tuesday night, several miles away.
Burk, an 18-year-old from Marietta, Ga., was found wounded on Alabama Highway 147 around 9 p.m., and Auburn police said her Honda Civic was found engulfed in flames at the campus about 20 minutes later. She died later that night at a hospital.
Gov. Bob Riley's office is offering a $10,000 reward in the case, Stofer said.
"We have not named a suspect and are still investigating leads," Auburn police Capt. Tom Stofer said, adding that officials are remaining tightlipped because of the circumstances of Burk's death, reports the Journal Constitution.
Confusion and shock spread throughout campus quickly Wednesday morning, the Auburn Plainsman reported.
“I want to know what caused it, because obviously she was targeted,” Jeni Young, also a first-year student, told the newspaper.
About 80 students, mostly sorority sisters, gathered early Wednesday evening for a vigil in the parking lot where Burk's car was found. Some were crying and carrying flowers to leave on the spot where her car was discovered. They linked arms and formed a circle, leaning on each other, reports the Birmingham News.
Jay Seyfried, a friend of Burk's from high school, told CBS News affiliate WMAZ-TV in Macon, Ga. that he still can't believe that one of his closest friends is gone.
“She was just one of the biggest sweethearts. Friendly to everyone, outstanding and she loved to laugh,” he said.
An on-campus prayer vigil for Burk was being organized by her friends, and a memorial was being planned by her sorority, Delta Gamma.
"Delta Gammas across the country offer hope and friendship to Lauren's family and all who have been affected by this tragedy," the sorority's national office said in a statement.
An Auburn judicial affairs official told the Atlanta Journal Constitution the university is setting up a memorial service on campus on Monday.
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See all 117 CommentsWell the murderer has been caught. What do you have to say now? I sure you and you ilk will defend him since he is black and say he was set-up and such.
I am everything that you hate.
I am a Gun Owner.
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I am a Middle Class Conservative and,
I vote Gun issues.
I donate to the Politican of my choice,
not party.
I count myself among the Brave Men and Women
of this Great Nation that will stand up and
fight for what is right.
I will fight for my Fellow Man.
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I will fight for the Colors of this Free Nation.
I hope that the 50 Stars and 13 Stripes remain,
but I despair that there may soon be a New Flag
over these 50 states.
Long live Free Men
Firearms and ammunition found in a Citizen''s possession will be forfeited to the government without compensation. Whoever willfully or negligently violates the provisions...will be punished with imprisonment and a fine.
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Shut your stupid mouth. Use your brain before you talk. THINK. OMG NOVEL CONCEPT: THINKING.
[Posted by USBrit at 04:31 PM : Mar 06, 2008]
they are also citizens ... and the defense of a constitutional right is exactly what they should be doing.
Posted by bobnjersey
Please note the quotation marks around psychopaths - I was referring another poster to the long standing discussion on the other story on plusses and minuses of guns. I was not referring to gun owners as psychopaths myself.
Posted by EyeSupremacy
We need to ignore this type of (rap, then these trolls can crawl back under their rocks and be quiet.
Posted by ranger1948 at 08:27 PM : Mar 06, 2008
If she had oil in her back yard or it could bring trillions of tax dollars in corporate welfare, I''m sure the media would find a way.
Clearly you aren''t up to date with your NATIONAL news. Right underneath the link for this article is a link referring to the "Memphis Massacre." That massacre included NINE African American individuals. So your point it not valid. And had you only read that article you probably would have questioned why African Amreicans are the only one targeted.
Get your stuff together before you go targeting sensitive articles like these. People have emotions and are reading this article in order to figure out why this innocent individual was murdered. The last thing that they want to read are your invalid comments about race/minorities. You know it''s not a sin to be sensitive regardless of race. Take your opinions elsewhere and get over your "race complex."
[Posted by USBrit at 04:31 PM : Mar 06, 2008]
they are also citizens ... and the defense of a constitutional right is exactly what they should be doing.
All it does is place the responsibility on an inanimate object rather than the criminal who uses it illegally.
I don''t know why some people don''t respect their own lives or the lives of others but blaming guns is just not going to solve the problem.
In a dangerous world good people need to be able to choose whether or not they want to defend themselves and having a gun and knowing how to use it properly and safely can be very helpful.
I''m not aware of the gun numbers, but I have to say that a lot of these are probably unlicensed guns. I haven''t heard that they traced shell casings back to a gun since every other episode of law and order.
Sometimes yes, but anyone who is crazy enough to murder someone with a registered gun, it well ... crazy or has a death wish.
Thank you. I think you see the same issue that I do.
Posted by geecee827
If you go to the other story on this tragedy you''ll find a whole bunch of those "psychopaths" defending their rights.
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