Carolina Slay Suspect Held On $3M Bond

Teen Allegedly Shot Two Students; Other Suspect Was In Court Days Before Deaths

(CBS/AP)  A judge in Durham has ordered authorities to hold a teenager charged with killing students at Duke University and the University of North Carolina on a $3 million bond.

Laurence Lovette made his first court appearance Friday morning in the fatal shooting of Abhijit Mahato. The 29-year-old computational mechanics student was found dead in January inside his apartment a few blocks south of Duke's campus.

Lovette, 17, is scheduled to appear in nearby Hillsborough Friday afternoon to face charges in the death of Eve Carson. The 22-year-old Athens, Ga. native was found fatally shot March 5 in the middle of a residential street in Chapel Hill.

Lovette's criminal record includes charges of breaking and entering and larceny, for which he was on probation when he was arrested Thursday, reports CBS News affiliate WRAL-TV in Raleigh. He was due in a Durham courtroom this month on charges of first-degree burglary, felony larceny of a motor vehicle and felony larceny after breaking and entering, all related to two crimes from February.

If convicted, Lovette will most likely not face the death penalty since a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibits the execution of anyone under 18 at the time of the crime.

The harshest punishment he could face, if convicted of either crime, would be life in prison without parole.

Police also have charged Demario James Atwater, 21, in Carson's death, and Stephen Lavance Oates, 19 in Mahato's death.

Atwater was in a Wake County courtroom on a probation violation just two days before Carson died, reports WRAL-TV.

A series of clerical errors, however, forestalled the he would go to jail, according to Clerk of Superior Court Lorrin Freeman and state Department of Correction officials.

Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall said he hasn't decided whether he will seek the death penalty against Atwater, reports WRAL-TV.

[keithle1]

Ask the black men in American prisons if they had a loving mother & father who cared about them & made them priority number one.

Teenage girls of any race should NOT be having babies. It''s not right or healthy. They should be going to school & graduating when it''s their time.
Not buying diapers & persuading their mother/grandmother to babysit for them while they work a minimum-wage job. The "father" disappears of course. Not always but usually.

Stupid people are breeding. Giving birth to future violent thugs who may or may not come into contact with you.

[fpbroke]

Twenty years ago, I suggested that we pay every teenager (of any race creed or color) a couple thousand dollars every year to atay in school and NOT have a baby. (Not the same thing as paying for abortions.) I thought it would be cheaper than keeping a baby on public assistance and associated services, plus give kids an incentive to complete their education.

I got called "Nazi", and received death threats. So I gave it up, and left with the question "What are you going to do in twenty years, when these babies are all grown up and running the streets with a nine?"

And here we are.

[keithle1]

Baby mamas give birth to thugs/criminals. These gangstas always have a rap sheet that goes on forever. Professional criminals. They don''t contribute anything positive to society & don''t do anything good. Going to prison means nothing to them
It''s all part of the "thug life." Half the male population of their neighborhood is behind bars.

We should pay pregnant teenage black girls to get an abortion. What''s the point in them having the baby? If it''s a boy, the odds are that it will get involved in criminal activity. We don''t need any more unwanted babies that grow up to murder, rob, rape & deal drugs.

[jmervolini]

Not all black men are stupid and ignorant.You should not assume all black men are out to kill. Just like all white people are not ignorant racist. Express your view but be correct..When u come of like a stupid
cracker it only show how much you people know about the same people that share the U.S with you..Its only right that those two guys pay for their crime..Nobody should lose their life like the two victims did..Its a real shame that the two suspects then think twice before engaging in the activity that they did...But your ignorants is not needed in a time like this...Dont put every black men in one category..Not all of us have kids and care about sports only...

[nikkicatt1]

I am against the death penalty for one reason: Too many appeals and too much time wasted. I would like to see the guilty turned over to the victims families for punishment. I am sick of paying to house career criminals such as these.

[hooterlvr1]

Not to worry! They''ll probably meet up with their biological dads in there, or big Tyrone will take them under his wing and pimp them out for some cigs! Either way they will get waht they deserve. Too bad they can''t give them both the needle.

[kalamere1]

The death of Eve Carson is not the only one alledgedly committed by Lovette. He''s indicted as well
for the murder of a Duke graduate student from India in January. He was photographed at the atm drive through attempting to use Eve''s atm card. Atwater tried to use it at a convenience store and was caught on surveillance. Lovette had the Duke student''s wallet and ipod. These two indifferently and wantonly murdered innocent people for couple of bucks and an ipod. There will be people looking out for their welfare. I wish these compassionate people could have been there to look out for Eve and the student from India. Would they have helped or run away in fright?

[fpbroke]

I don''t care what color they are. If they did this, they no longer need to inhabit this space-time continuum. There is no such thing as an inescapable prison. And look at the Brian Nichols case in Georgia. Three years and six million dollars later, and still no conviction, and his killing spree was during an escape.

Look at these young mens'' eyes, in the photos. Cold and dead and soulless. Do you really think these people are salvageable?

If they''re guilty, kill them. Shoot them in the right temple, or the forehead, for real justice, but be merciful if you must. As far as I''m concerned, there are heinous things people do by which they renounce their claim to humanity. I''d have no more compunction about euthanizing them than I would a mad dog.

[gunsrevil]

Criminologists don''''t consider the death penalty or guns good deterrents. But I won''''t mind at all if these two get the death penalty. I think they deserve it!~



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Posted by ElCantante1 at 03:11 PM : Mar 14, 2008


Thank you, you finally got it, short and to the point without going on and on and on and on.

[keithle1]

A lot of young black men are more than happy to live up to their stereotype.

Take these two up in a helicopter & throw them out. No one will care. We need to start taking out the trash. Why are they allowed to kill people & ruin lives? What useful purpose do they serve? Name me one good thing they do.