Suspects Charged In UNC Student Slaying
21-Year-Old Arrested And Held; Police Still Searching For Second Suspect
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Demario James Atwater, 21, charged in death of Eve Carson, was arrested and ordered held without bond, March 12, 2008. (Chapel Hill Police Dept.)
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Lawrence Alvin Lovette Jr., 17, charged in death of Eve Carson, is still at large and being sought by police, March 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Chapel Hill Police)
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Eve Carson, 22, of Athens, Ga., was found last Wednesday lying on a street about a mile from campus. Durham police detained a person of interest for questioning in the case Wednesday, March 12, 2008. (CBS/UNC - Chapel Hill)
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A convenience store surveillance camera captures a suspect in the death of Eve Carson. (Chapel Hill Police Dept./WRAL)
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Experts studying surveillance photos of a man using an ATM card that belonged to Eve Carson suggest that a second person may have been in the rear of the vehicle. Police would not speculate that Carson herself may have been held hostage when the pictures were taken. (AP Photo/Chapel Hill Police Dept.)
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Demario James Atwater, 21, of Durham, was arrested and ordered held without bond. Police said they are still searching for the second suspect, 17-year-old Lawrence Alvin Lovette Jr.
Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran declined to say whether Lovett was the subject of an intense police standoff Wednesday afternoon in nearby Durham. City Councilman Eugene Brown said it appears the standoff was resolved without an arrest.
Police in Durham refused to comment, referring all questions about the standoff to police in Chapel Hill.
Shackled at the ankle and waist and with a public defender at his side, Atwater whispered "yes" when asked whether he understood the charge against him. His next court appearance was scheduled for March 24.
"I hope the arrest can ease the minds of some in the community," District Attorney Jim Woodall said.
Messages left with the Orange County public defenders office were not returned Wednesday.
Curran would not say which of the suspects shot and killed Eve Carson, 22, of Athens, Ga., who was found a week ago lying on a street about a mile from campus. The biology and political science major had been shot several times, including once in the right temple.
In the day after Carson's death, police focused their investigation on a suspect pictured in several surveillance photos using her ATM card.
Lovette was identified as the driver in ATM surveillance photos, reports CBS News affiliate WRAL-TV. Police are also investigating whether he was in Carson's blue Toyota Highlander at the time.
Two surveillance photos from a convenience store show a man, whom police said was Atwater, at the time an attempt was made to use Carson’s debit card at an ATM in that store, WRAL-TV reports.
The Board of Trustees at North Carolina offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in her death, and police received hundreds of tips after the first two photos were released over the weekend.
Carson was a prestigious Morehead-Cain scholar at North Carolina, where she was remembered by thousands who gathered Thursday at two campus memorial services. Hundreds of mourners filled the First United Methodist Church in Athens on Sunday at a memorial service in her hometown.
The university said Wednesday a third memorial service will be held next week at the campus basketball arena.
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$25,000 reward to 1 million dollars.
I hope they get the worthless piece of scum who
did this!!!!
While I believe everyone is entitled to a fair trial, if after that fair trial they are convicted we should hang them as soon as possible. At least then they won''t be repeat offenders. I also believe that for non-violent crimes we should not be putting people in jail, treat them like the children they act like and use physical punnishment. I advocate public whippings. Five lashing for first offense, doubled for every offense after that. Eventually they will self-impose the death penalty simply because we''d end up beating them to death.
Posted by exCoachKen at 11:25 AM : Mar 12, 2008"
Seriously, anyone who doesn''t know there''s a camera at every ATM & each transaction is time-stamped is a fricking moron.
These kinds of killers are NOT people they are animals that can never be rehabed no matter what some psychologists who gets paid to say such things says.
No punishmnet could be harsh and unusual enough to be banned in my opinion for these kinds of animals.
I''m a liberal and I say draw and quarter these kinds of animals, we''d see a reduction in these kinds of murders. Gang members should be treated like terrorists because all they do is terrorize the rest of us every day of our lives.
And all the rest like him.
What is this country thinking when scum like this in the end will end up with more rights, not to mention life, then did their victims!
two guns son of 1 gun
In situations where the evidence of guilt against a murderer is overwhelming and irrefutable, a sentence of death should be carried out within a week of the conviction. Save money for the tax payers, rid the world of a threat, and dispell any illusions of borrowed time for killers who think sitting on death row for a couple decades aint bad.
i agree, instead just shoot the guy in the head and be done with it.
Posted by blackwater66 at 01:26 PM : Mar 12, 2008
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For years we all are careful about what we say about colored folks, and rightly so. It is not the color of skin that makes one better or worse.
However, blackwater66 above has a good point, thank you. With all the gangs, do they single out certain individuals. for eg, a beautiful white woman, just because she is white? probably yes they do. So what''s wrong with giving them some of their own *** medicine. He should get dead with a bullet in his f.u.c.k.i.n.g. black head. Did anyone read about Eve on wikipedia? She appears to be going in the right direction, would have been an asset to society. Very sorry for the loss. What a shame. Then, go and read about a similar recent murder of another white young woman, Lauren Burk on wikipedia. Take a look at the f... black looser that is accused of her murder. I hope he is someone''s wife in prison.
When a certain people? Is this how you avoid being called a racist?
What do you call it when those certain people are white considering that 90% of white victims are killed by white murderers?
I feel sorry for decent black people who have to deal with the negative consequences of their thuggish brothers. But until the black community steps up to the plate and starts making positive changes, I will continue to regard every black male with suspicion (and with good reason). We can talk nice all we want, be PC and avoid the truth, but everybody knows that black males are a PROBLEM. Conservatives know it and so do liberals. Whites know it and so do blacks.
These scum will live a good life in prison, where they will be fed and entertained and looked after. The only downer for them is that their lust for murder will be thwarted -- at least, until they get out on parole in a few years.
For shame, America.
A six year old is now on life support after being shot while his family drove in a car.
Nothing.
Most crimes that black men are in jail for are non-violent drug crimes. If the same consequences were given for the same drugs, you''d see the same increase in the prison populations, regardless of race.
Until we start looking at crime as a problem of OUR community, nothing will change. No man is an island. People are doing even more in Baghdad to find a joint solution that what we can find in America.
Dont think dude, I''ll be a rasict if it puts people in order. And besides whe are not talking about white/white we are talking about blacks, and beside where do you get your info, it''s wrong. You must be a certain people....how many checks do you get a month?
Answer at 11.
Where is my information wrong? Most people are killed by people within their own race, not outside it. Although the former doesn''t get as much news coverage and isn''t as explosive. Unfortunately, the media has a way of making things seem larger than proportion.
Anyway, you are the one mentioning checks, not me. You do also know that whites make up the majority of those on public assistance. I''m sure you know this.
I hear you about what makes it to the news and what doesn''t. I remember a case where a kid got a flat tire and called his dad for help. After they changed the tire. The son got into his car and the dad into his. That was when someone drove up and shot the son in the car right in front of the dad. Didn''t hardly make more than the local news, even though they never found the perp.
Welfare:
Race
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White 38.8%
Black 37.2
Hispanic 17.8
Asian 2.8
Other 3.4
she''s gone...
and we''re left with him
Do those figures take into account the percentage of blacks and whites in the US population? If it doesn''t, then those figures are meaningless.
I feel sorry for this incident, but I just wonder why is it getting such coverage and the issue with Jamiel is not. His mother is serving in Iraq right now. He was a good student and on his way to Stanford with a football scholarship.
[Posted by dinodavid220 at 04:57 PM : Mar 12, 2008]
it''s about the propagation of the last name ... as stupid as this sounds. checks may be involved as well ... but the last name carrying on is one criteria (for black males).
Whites make up 80 percent of the population & account for 38% of welfare cases
Blacks make up 12% of the population & account for 37% of welfare cases
got a calculator nimrod???
and you think those numbers bode WELL for blacks???
These are the figures. Period. There are plenty of white people getting checks and it doesn''t include the rich farmers who are getting benefits while we have to pay huge amounts for wheat and rice at the supermarket. For example.
If blacks make up 12% of the population and whites make up 80% of the population, how do you account for Hispanics who make up a larger portion of the population than blacks? What about Asians, Native Americans, etc.?
I didn''t make any case. You try to portray blacks as making up 100% of the welfare population and that is not the case. If you include other formers of welfare, like farm subsidies and corporate welfare or placing prisons in poor white communities to give jobs, it is really not the case in addition.
ALL LIARS are going to the LAKE OF ETERNAL FIRE