Eve Carson Case Summary

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The Murder of Eve Carson took place on the morning of March 5, 2008, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States The victim was Eve Marie Carson, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A 21-year-old, Demario James Atwater, of Durham, North Carolina has been charged with her murder. A second suspect, 17-year-old Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., was taken into custody early morning March 13. Lovette is also now being held in connection with the January murder of 29-year-old Duke University engineering student Abhijit Mahato.

Carson's body was found at the intersection of Hillcrest Circle and Hillcrest Drive in Chapel Hill at approximately 5 a.m. on March 5, 2008. Police could not immediately identify the body, but at 9 a.m. on March 6, 2008 police investigators and the office of the medical examiner identified the body as that of Carson. Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran said that Carson's death appeared to be a random act. Police recovered her car more than a mile away from her body after receiving a tip from a local witness. Police also released images from a security video of a person using Carson's ATM card.

The medical examiner said that Carson had not been sexually assaulted. Carson was shot several times, including once in the temple.

Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. was arrested almost 24 hours after the arrest of a man who, police say, joined him in the murder. Lovette, 17, and Demario James Atwater, 21, were charged on March 11, 2008 with first-degree murder in the crime while Lovette was still at large.