CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 12, 2008

Suspects Charged In UNC Student Slaying

21-Year-Old Arrested And Held; Police Still Searching For Second Suspect

    • Demario James Atwater, 21, charged in death of Eve Carson, was arrested and ordered held without bond, March 12, 2008. Photo

      Demario James Atwater, 21, charged in death of Eve Carson, was arrested and ordered held without bond, March 12, 2008.  (Chapel Hill Police Dept.)

    • Lawrence Alvin Lovette Jr., 17, charged in death of Eve Carson, is still at large and being sought by police, March 12, 2008. Photo

      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)

    • 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. Photo

      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)

    • A convenience store surveillance camera captures a suspect in the death of Eve Carson. Photo

      A convenience store surveillance camera captures a suspect in the death of Eve Carson.  (Chapel Hill Police Dept./WRAL)

    • 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. Photo

      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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(CBS/AP)  Two suspects were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the killing of the University of North Carolina's student body president.

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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by noaanhc March 12, 2008 11:14 AM PDT
If I had the money,I would increase that
$25,000 reward to 1 million dollars.

I hope they get the worthless piece of scum who
did this!!!!
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by excoachken March 12, 2008 11:25 AM PDT
Not only is the perp worthless, he is obviously very stupid to give the ATM such a good shot of his face. This should be an easy catch for a modern police department.
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by timetrips1 March 12, 2008 11:31 AM PDT
Now society has lost a productive member who in all likely hood would have contributed something positive and gained another worthless dependent or two who will rote in jail for 10 to 15 years at tax payers expense and then get out to repeat their crimes.

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.
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by easeup-2009 March 12, 2008 11:55 AM PDT
"Not only is the perp worthless, he is obviously very stupid to give the ATM such a good shot of his face. This should be an easy catch for a modern police department.

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.
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by luigi999-2009 March 12, 2008 12:30 PM PDT
Somebody get a rope!
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by talkingham March 12, 2008 12:38 PM PDT
The punishment for these kinds of crimes on totally innocent people should be as painfull and harsh or even more painful than what the animal did.

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.
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by hambonehd March 12, 2008 12:57 PM PDT
Hang him high!!
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!
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by democrat2u March 12, 2008 1:24 PM PDT
I got two ropes, one for the HEAD and one for the BALLS.
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by blackwater66-2009 March 12, 2008 1:26 PM PDT
I agree, hang them both, the one in NC and the one in Alabama. These are nothing but common criminals. Take a look at their photos and see if this maybe a hate crime or not ?? Just my thoughts of course!! What say thee ??
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by tbweb March 12, 2008 1:35 PM PDT
This is where I part ways with many of my fellow Americans. When someone commits a crime like this, I don''t consider them members of the human race anymore, they become something else, no longer one of us and so I don''t care what happens to them, they forfeit all rights.
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by renae2626 March 12, 2008 1:38 PM PDT
What a sick person...if he did kill her he is very stupid to kill her then go around using her ATM Card and driving her vehicle, i dont think that could get any more ignorant. I agree with the fact that gang members should be treated like terrorist''s, people should not have to be so scared to walk the streets. If this guy did kill her and he is a gang memeber then she was killed at random which makes it the worst part of all, i really feel for her family.
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by ringading3 March 12, 2008 2:16 PM PDT
In the old days, people knew how to handle these killers and rappists. Then along came the ACLU and we can''t hang them anymore
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by twogunsono1g March 12, 2008 3:04 PM PDT
It is possible that some other perp did the crime and then tricked this moron into using the car and card, thereby taking the heat off of him.

two guns son of 1 gun
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by daniel.harris6 March 12, 2008 3:48 PM PDT
Callous murders like this one, the girl in Alabama, and the highschool football player in LA will always confound rational people''s attemps to understand them.

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.
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by uncsenior March 12, 2008 3:48 PM PDT
All these references to hanging and lynching would hurt Eve''s feelings...I go to UNC AND knew eve... It is tragic, awful, heinous and I''m still reeling in my feeling on all of it... we all feel it, but making racist comments makes it worse.
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by killtheliars March 12, 2008 4:06 PM PDT
uncsenior,

i agree, instead just shoot the guy in the head and be done with it.
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by subscriber2-2009 March 12, 2008 4:29 PM PDT
I agree, hang them both, the one in NC and the one in Alabama. These are nothing but common criminals. Take a look at their photos and see if this maybe a hate crime or not ?? Just my thoughts of course!! What say thee ??



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.
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by r_k_l March 12, 2008 4:32 PM PDT
Two wonderful lives lost for no reason. If these men are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, they need to be put to death. People need to understand that men such as these cannot be rehabilitated and they have lost all right to be "maintained" by taxpayer dollars in a prison. These are clearly cases for justifying the death penalty.
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by taylor2124 March 12, 2008 4:35 PM PDT
Some idiot on this forum said Eve would have been distressed if she knew the bad ways people were talking about her murderer. Come again??? Look, if someone robbed ME of MY life at the young age of 20, and I was able to look down from above and apply a sentence, I''d want the guys hung upside and burned alive. I certianly would not be up there saying "Be nice to our fellow man. Please don''t be vindictive."
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by jjarden March 12, 2008 4:36 PM PDT
There is ONLy ONE Punishment for these Ghouls...Public Beheadings with a Rusty Axe on the town common...but of course, that is only a dream because there is NO Criminal "JUSTICE" in this country of ours...it''s a TOTAL JOKE...Their LIFE in PRISON will be BETTER than their life on the outside having to make their own way in life. And this is why America is going down the TUBES.
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by eyewideopen March 12, 2008 4:49 PM PDT
Which is why Eve''s loss is so terrible and tragic and why yours Taylor2124, might not be so bad.
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by dinodavid220 March 12, 2008 4:52 PM PDT
see even a cold blooded killer has more rights that someone expressing an honest opinion. America get a grip.
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by nahgem-2009 March 12, 2008 4:56 PM PDT
Hopefully these guys will be like that guy that killed Lauren Burk. He confessed to killing her. Unfortunately, even though he confessed, I am sure they will use the "he was in Iraq (and was dishonorably discharged) and doesn''t know right from wrong because of it" excuse.
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by dinodavid220 March 12, 2008 4:57 PM PDT
This is also what happens when a certain people are allowed to have mass amounts of babys for the sake of a goverment check each month, some dont get the care or attention they deserve. Whos fault is that? and besides who needs nine chillins when you cant afford them? Am i right?
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by whatithink-2009 March 12, 2008 4:58 PM PDT
dinodavid220,

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?
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by whatithink-2009 March 12, 2008 5:00 PM PDT
Funny how we descend into race when the perpertrator is not white but when the perpetrator is white it becomes a topic of gun control, giving drugs to children and how can we work better as a society.
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by bethbee1 March 12, 2008 5:01 PM PDT
I am so sick to death of black males and all their crime. Let''s stop pussyfooting around and call a spade a spade: blacks make up 12% of the population and commit 39% of the crime in this country. Facts are not racist.

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.
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by whatithink-2009 March 12, 2008 5:02 PM PDT
Jamiel Shaw, 17, was killed on March 2nd as well. He was on his way to Stanford with a football scholarship.

A six year old is now on life support after being shot while his family drove in a car.

Nothing.

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by incog-nito March 12, 2008 5:03 PM PDT
Stand-off? Just fire, fire at will.
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by whatithink-2009 March 12, 2008 5:05 PM PDT
BethBee1,

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.
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by dinodavid220 March 12, 2008 5:09 PM PDT
Whatithink,
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?
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by usbrit-2009 March 12, 2008 5:09 PM PDT
Posted by Taylor2124 - Your comment was in extreme bad taste. The post you were referring to was from one of Eve''s classmates who new her personally. She probably knows how Eve would feel a little better than you. I believe you owe her an apology.
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by irliberal March 12, 2008 5:10 PM PDT
Okay your daughter brings a guy that looks like this home to meet you. Do you A) shoot him, B) shoot yourself or C) shoot your daughter?

Answer at 11.
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by excoachken March 12, 2008 5:12 PM PDT
Good police work. Now fair trial and solid punishment, with as much coverage as you have given this horrific crime already, can deter someone in the future. The true test of this entire sequence will be whether or not CBS and other do their part by covering the less sensational but even more important part of the story that will now unfold. My bet is that it gets put on the back burner.
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by whatithink-2009 March 12, 2008 5:14 PM PDT
dinodavid220,

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.

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by dogsoul March 12, 2008 5:19 PM PDT
Oh please... don''t even THINK about comparing the numbers when it comes to black & white on welfare or crime... the numbers are staggering, and they speak for themselves...
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by dinodavid220 March 12, 2008 5:19 PM PDT
As a matter of fact i do, and those are the elderly Americans who have served their country and cant afford to live because Ms Jones has 12 kids and the baby''s daddy cant go shoot dice....let''s not fight, enough badness has already been done, i wish you well...
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by rudy654-2009 March 12, 2008 5:19 PM PDT
Posted by whatithink at 05:02 PM

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.
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by whatithink-2009 March 12, 2008 5:20 PM PDT
dogsoul,

Welfare:

Race
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White 38.8%
Black 37.2
Hispanic 17.8
Asian 2.8
Other 3.4

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by dogsoul March 12, 2008 5:21 PM PDT
...just to look upon this bag of garbage thinking about the life he took makes me sick -

she''s gone...

and we''re left with him
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by irliberal March 12, 2008 5:23 PM PDT
Posted by whatithink at 05:20 PM

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.
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by whatithink-2009 March 12, 2008 5:24 PM PDT
rudy654,

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.
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by bobnjersey March 12, 2008 5:24 PM PDT
[This is also what happens when a certain people are allowed to have mass amounts of babys for the sake of a goverment check each month. Whos fault is that? and besides who needs nine chillins when you cant afford them? Am i right?]
[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).
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by dogsoul March 12, 2008 5:25 PM PDT
I''ll fact check your numbers - but even if I take your word for it...

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???
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by whatithink-2009 March 12, 2008 5:25 PM PDT
IRLiberal,

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.
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by mrskimble March 12, 2008 5:26 PM PDT
Somethings that are being said are Racist, and some are fact. I am an African American Woman, that works a Great Job, everyday....I am married to the Father of our 2 sons. and we have a daughter on the way. I have never recv public assitance and have always lived in the best of area. My parents are College Grad professional...and some of the things that i have heard are offensive. The "decent'' blacks and the words "chillins'' or however it was stated...I don''t speak ignorance toward any race. We dont teach our sons those things I monitor what is watched and listen to..My sons have professional names...It has nothing to do with Crime and Race...It has to do with the teaching and the morals...Not everyone African American is alike just like not all Whites are Child Molestors, Serial Killers, or any other sterotype that is pinned on a white person. Instead of FOCUSING on the Race of the Crime .....Concentrate on the Crime itself and pray for the family. And understand Blacks are not the only Problem. There are Bad people of all races....Just like Whites. We have college education. We follow rules. So don''t just look at the person because when you bring in race to the Picture it Shows alot of Ignorance.It is hurtful to the ones that do the right thing. We could ask the same thing ABOUT ALL RACES THAT COMMIT CRIMES..IT IS THE CRIME NOT THE COLOR.
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by whatithink-2009 March 12, 2008 5:28 PM PDT
dogsoul,

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.?
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by deesean40 March 12, 2008 5:28 PM PDT
Dogsoul... its obvious as a result of the primaries that white are bigger LIARS than any other race on the face of the earth. The black population is much larger than those lying statistics you have just posted....it time for a TRUE census. Get the TRUTH and learn to adhere to it.
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by whatithink-2009 March 12, 2008 5:30 PM PDT
michaelt302,

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.
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by deesean40 March 12, 2008 5:30 PM PDT
Sell those LIES to someone else... you are not 80% any more. Blacks and Latino have far more children than Whites any day of the week!!!
ALL LIARS are going to the LAKE OF ETERNAL FIRE
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