UNC Student Body President Slain
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Thousands of stunned students gathered silently Thursday on a quad at the University of North Carolina to mourn their student body president - just hours after police said she was the young woman found shot to death on a city street.
CBS News affiliate WRAL reports that UNC Chancellor James Moeser spoke during the informal gathering that drew an estimated 5,000 people, most who held each other and cried.
"We're all in a state of shock," he told the grieving crowd, "We are all hurting. We are all grief-stricken - stunned," he said. "This university needs an enormous group hug. It's OK to cry. It's OK to be filled with grief."
Police say 22-year-old Eve Marie Carson, a senior from Athens, Ga., was shot several times, including at least once in the head. Officials said there are no suspects and no arrests have been made.
Police found Carson's vehicle, a blue 2005 Toyota Highlander with Georgia plates, after receiving a tip this afternoon from a witness who spotted it near Franklin Street, the main drag though Chapel Hill.
Officers found the body of a young woman about a mile from campus, after neighbors reported hearing shots about 5 a.m. yesterday.
Police publicly identified the shooting victim as Carson on Thursday, and police Chief Brian Curran said her death appeared to be a random act. The neighborhood where her body was found, about a mile from the North Carolina campus, is an upscale residential area and is not home to student housing.
"She was just an incredible person that I think had an affect on a lot of people's live," UNC senior Katie Eagan told WRAL. "The way in which she died was obviously a shock. I think we're all just trying to process it right now."
Carson was valedictorian at Clarke Central High School in 2004. She was a prestigious Morehead-Cain scholar and a North Carolina Fellow, taking part in a four-year leadership development program for undergraduates. A premed student, she majored in political science and biology, was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, taught science at Chapel Hill elementary schools, studied abroad in Cuba, and spent summers volunteering in Ecuador, Egypt and Ghana as part of a school program.
Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Currin told WRAL that the department's investigation into the crime was still in its very early stages. "A lot of it, up to this point, was just trying to figure out who the victim was," he said.
Carson's murder comes two days after the violent death of another college student from Georgia, Lauren Burk, an 18-year-old from Marietta. Burk was found wounded by a gunshot on a roadside on March 4 about five miles from Auburn University and she later died at a hospital. Her car was found buArning in a parking lot on campus.
© 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. CBS News affiliate WRAL reports that UNC Chancellor James Moeser spoke during the informal gathering that drew an estimated 5,000 people, most who held each other and cried.
"We're all in a state of shock," he told the grieving crowd, "We are all hurting. We are all grief-stricken - stunned," he said. "This university needs an enormous group hug. It's OK to cry. It's OK to be filled with grief."
Police say 22-year-old Eve Marie Carson, a senior from Athens, Ga., was shot several times, including at least once in the head. Officials said there are no suspects and no arrests have been made.
Police found Carson's vehicle, a blue 2005 Toyota Highlander with Georgia plates, after receiving a tip this afternoon from a witness who spotted it near Franklin Street, the main drag though Chapel Hill.
Officers found the body of a young woman about a mile from campus, after neighbors reported hearing shots about 5 a.m. yesterday.
Police publicly identified the shooting victim as Carson on Thursday, and police Chief Brian Curran said her death appeared to be a random act. The neighborhood where her body was found, about a mile from the North Carolina campus, is an upscale residential area and is not home to student housing.
"She was just an incredible person that I think had an affect on a lot of people's live," UNC senior Katie Eagan told WRAL. "The way in which she died was obviously a shock. I think we're all just trying to process it right now."
Carson was valedictorian at Clarke Central High School in 2004. She was a prestigious Morehead-Cain scholar and a North Carolina Fellow, taking part in a four-year leadership development program for undergraduates. A premed student, she majored in political science and biology, was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, taught science at Chapel Hill elementary schools, studied abroad in Cuba, and spent summers volunteering in Ecuador, Egypt and Ghana as part of a school program.
Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Currin told WRAL that the department's investigation into the crime was still in its very early stages. "A lot of it, up to this point, was just trying to figure out who the victim was," he said.
Carson's murder comes two days after the violent death of another college student from Georgia, Lauren Burk, an 18-year-old from Marietta. Burk was found wounded by a gunshot on a roadside on March 4 about five miles from Auburn University and she later died at a hospital. Her car was found buArning in a parking lot on campus.
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[Posted by rudy654 at 04:30 PM : Mar 07, 2008]
you''re about as lucid as she is. "now, i have previously seen the statistics you posts(sic), and he has been right on every time ... "
this makes no sense at all ... and it''s not a surprise from someone defending a raving lunatic.
here''s a new summary of my stats (the ones that put the gun deaths in context). something that gun-****-o will never do:
Total Annual Deaths (US): 2,477,700
Heart Disease: 864,000
Cancer: 564,000
esophogus 13,800
colon *** 54,000
lymphoma 55,800
breast 42,000
pancreas 33,000
lung/trachea/bronch 161,000
prostate 29,400
ovary 15,000
leukemia 32,000
other malig. neoplasms 63,000
All other (unspec) diseases: 220,000
Stroke: 150,074
Chronic Lower Respritory: 132,000
Accidents (unintentional): 119,000
non transport 70,000
falls 19,800
poisoning 24,000
other 18,900
transport 48,900
Diabetes: 76,000
Alzheimers: 72,000
Influenza/Pneumonia: 63,900
Nephritis/nephrosis(kidney): 44,480
Speticemia (blood infection): 34,500
Suicide: 33,000
Other Respritory: 27,300
Chronic Liver disease: 27,900
Parkinsons: 19,000
Homicide: 18,300
Pneumonitis (solids/liquids): 17.400
Perinatal: 14,000
these are nearly all avoidable.
Posted by rudy654 at 04:26 PM : Mar 07, 2008
They are deleting his/her posts.
Well, bobby in Jorsey, I only went back five pages and pure insults towards him is all I could find. Now, I have previously seen the statistics you posts, and he has been right on every time, and the reaction is always beyond explanation.
[Posted by rudy654 at 04:26 PM : Mar 07, 2008]
i know you are ... but what am i? this is a point.
she''s a raving lunatic ... and so are you if you think she''s at all lucid.
[Posted by Schoolmast1 at 04:01 PM : Mar 07, 2008]
what they all know is that you''re completely out of your mind ... even cbs online has figured that out ... and you''re the only one who hasn''t.
Wow. I just went back five pages and all I can see is the same people attacking you over and over again. And in all of those pages, not one word from you until this first page. Be of good cheer, you must be doing something right to get these people so upset about your points. Bravo to you!
Here%u2019s how it%u2019s done!
[Posted by Schoolmast1 at 03:59 PM : Mar 07, 2008]
sounds like the paranoia might be creeping in again ... you should fight that by becoming even more oc than you already are.
why don''t you respond to each character of everyone''s post. a seperate response for each character ... one per line ... with a tilde (~) and a LOL at the end. do you realize you''re almost there already.
do you have any conscious awareness of your real condition? do you ever go back and read the incessant drivel you post? have you ever been committed?
be sure to answer everything ... in detail ... and make sure everything is a ''dodge''.
I agree,,,don''t pay attention to the person. Schoolord/schoolmast1 has no credibilty. They are a vengeful creteton, that should just slither away. Far, far away.
Posted by gunownerdan
Well put sir. I vote that from now no one pay any attention to him at all.