It took over a week, but Chapel Hill police finally have the two thugs in custody for the senseless murder of a popular University of North Carolina honors student.
Eve Carson, 22, was gunned down in her vehicle and her body dumped on a city street after she was car jacked outside her home near the UNC campus.
Police say Lawrence Alvin Lovette, Jr, 17, the suspected triggerman, and his buddy Demario James Atwater, 21, of Durham, are both charged with first degree murder.
What makes this crime especially chilling is the casual way in which both men went about their lives after killing Carson.
Lovette logged into his Myspace page on Sunday, several days after the murder, and Atwater went shopping with Carson’s cash and had his long hair braided by a girlfriend. Both men are known to the juvenile corrections system in North Carolina.
Lovette is also charged with killing Abhijit Mahato, a 29 year old Duke graduate student who was shot back in January.
State records indicate both suspects are currently on parole. Lovette was given a suspended sentenced in January for misdemeanor larceny and breaking and entering. Atwater was convicted of felony breaking and entering in 2005 and illegal possession of a firearm in 2007. He also received a suspended sentence. (Source)
Atwater was arrested first early Wednesday morning after police received a tip from the public and surrounded a home where he was staying. He was ambushed when he left the home around 5 AM. Police roughed him up a llittle (as they should) and were able to extract his accomplice’s name from him.
After circulating a more recent photo of the shooter, Lovette, police received another tip on the location where he was hiding in Durham. The juvenile surrendered peacefully early this morning after police surrounded the home. Both men are being held without bond.
