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2nd Man Involved in Murder of Tarheel Student Sentenced to Life

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I remember the day this happened. Absolutely horrible. Glad there has finally been some justice. These 2 deserve to be killed.

Laurence Lovette sentenced to life in prison for Eve Carson's murder

More than three years after her death, the second man accused of former Student Body President Eve Carson’s murder has been found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Following eight days of testimony and less than three hours of deliberation, a jury found Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., 21, guilty of first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, armed robbery and felony larceny in connection with Carson’s March 2008 death Tuesday morning.

“This was an absolutely senseless murder.” District Attorney Jim Woodall said. “The citizens from this state need to be protected from Laurence Lovette.”

Judge Allen Baddour sentenced Lovette to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder, and he will serve additional sentences for the kidnapping and robbery charges.

“The life that Ms. Carson led was too short, but I know that she continues to be an inspiration, not only for her family but for thousands in this community and across this country,” Baddour said.

Carson, a 22-year-old Morehead-Cain Scholar from Athens, Ga. well known for her campus leadership and involvement, was found shot to death on the morning of March 5, 2008 in a Chapel Hill neighborhood about a mile from campus.

Prosecutors say Carson was abducted from her off-campus home in the early hours of March 5, taken to at least one ATM to withdraw money, and finally shot five times by Lovette and his co-defendant Demario James Atwater.

Atwater plead guilty to first-degree murder for Carson’s death in 2010 and is serving two life sentences.

Carson’s violent death shocked the University’s campus, and students came out by the thousands to mourn the loss of the beautiful girl with the bright future.

Read more about the case:

http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2011/12/lovette_found_guilty

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The way those guys abducted her...drove her around...shot her 4 times in various places...then finished her off with a shotgun blast to the side of the head.

Awful.

They should remain in cells the rest of their lives with ZERO human contact. Wallpaper the cell walls with pictures of Eve Carson before and after pictures. Listening to the defense attorney for these yokels had me fuming too.

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I would not waste more than the 1$ it would take for two shotgun shells on these two.

Now the citizens of NC get to pay about 25K per year per person to live out their miserable lives.

Horsepoo.

Any holdings these two guys had (money, cars, etc) should be immediately liquidated and used to fund a portion of their stay. No family member should ever be able to use it.

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Any holdings these two guys had (money, cars, etc) should be immediately liquidated and used to fund a portion of their stay. No family member should ever be able to use it.

doubt they had poo considering this:

On the night of Carson’s murder, District Attorney Jim Woodall said Lovette was looking for someone to rob, and he planned to kill the person to hide the evidence.

the process of the murder is straight out of a horror movie. I can't believe these 2 are being allowed to continue living:

The two men “rushed” her car, and Lovette took the driver’s seat while Atwater held Carson hostage in the backseat at gunpoint, according to a testimony by Lovette’s childhood friend Jayson McNeil.

At about 3:55 a.m., an ATM surveillance video from the Bank of America on Willow Drive in Chapel Hill shows an image of a man who prosecutors say is Lovette attempting to use an ATM card several times.

An enhanced surveillance video from the ATM shows two figures, who prosecutors say are Carson and Atwater, in the backseat.

Whether Carson was taken to any other ATM’s is still unclear, but a total of $1,400 was withdrawn from Carson’s account.

For the more than an hour that Carson was in the car with the two men, Carson pleaded and prayed for her life, even asking her murderers to pray with her, McNeil said Lovette told him.

Prosecutors say Carson was then taken to a wooded area about a mile from campus, where she was shot five times.

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in case no one knows what happened...

Prosecutors believe that at about 3:40 a.m., Carson was leaving her house, possibly to print a paper from her student government office on campus, which friends say she often did.

A surveillance video from a sorority shows two men in dark, baggy clothing walking towards Friendly Lane at about 3:33 a.m.

It is there that prosecutors say Atwater and Lovette saw Carson going towards her Toyota Highlander.

The two men “rushed” her car, and Lovette took the driver’s seat while Atwater held Carson hostage in the backseat at gunpoint, according to a testimony by Lovette’s childhood friend Jayson McNeil.

At about 3:55 a.m., an ATM surveillance video from the Bank of America on Willow Drive in Chapel Hill shows an image of a man who prosecutors say is Lovette attempting to use an ATM card several times.

An enhanced surveillance video from the ATM shows two figures, who prosecutors say are Carson and Atwater, in the backseat.

Whether Carson was taken to any other ATM’s is still unclear, but a total of $1,400 was withdrawn from Carson’s account.

For the more than an hour that Carson was in the car with the two men, Carson pleaded and prayed for her life, even asking her murderers to pray with her, McNeil said Lovette told him.

Prosecutors say Carson was then taken to a wooded area about a mile from campus, where she was shot five times.

Woodall contends Lovette fired the first four shots to Carson’s right shoulder, arm, buttocks, and cheek from a .25 mm handgun.

The fifth shot, fired from a sawed-off shotgun, penetrated Carson’s right hand and temple, destroying parts of her brain that medical examiners say were necessary for life functions.

Prosecutors believe Atwater fired the shotgun, which witnesses called the “baby gauge.”

A sixth shot hit Carson’s Lenovo laptop, and a bullet was found lodged in the computer by police.

Carson’s body was found at the intersection of Hillcrest Drive and Hillcrest Circle by police the next morning, and it took them another day to identify her.

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DA was asking about the motives behind witnesses against Lovette. Really? I really could never be a defense attorney for scum like this. If I knew someone to be guilty, no....never.

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