Second Suspect in Carson Murder Faces Trial

Posted on Oct. 26, 2011

The second suspect in the 2008 murder of Student Body President Eve Carson ’08 is scheduled to go on trial Nov. 28 in Orange County.

Laurence Alvin Lovette was under age 18 at the time of the crime, so if he were to be convicted of murder in the first degree, he would not be subject to the death penalty.

Demario Atwater pleaded guilty to the murder in September 2010 and received a life sentence for kidnapping resulting in death, a life sentence and two 10-year sentences on carjacking and weapons charges, and a 10-year sentence for discharging a weapon resulting in death.

Police say that Atwater and Lovette encountered Carson in the early morning hours of March 5, 2008, either inside or just outside her home near downtown Chapel Hill. They kidnapped her and drove in her vehicle to automatic teller machines in Orange and Durham counties, where they forced Carson to withdraw $1,400. Prosecutors said Carson then was shot five times.

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More online…

• Atwater Gets Federal Life Sentence in Carson’s Murder
  News report from September 2010
• Atwater Pleads to State Charges in Murder of Eve Carson
  News report from May 2010
• Carolina Dedicates Garden to Memory of Eve Carson
  News report from March 2010
• GAA Honors Three With Distinguished Young Alumni Awards
  News report from October 2009
• Ceremony Remembers, Celebrates Eve Carson
  News report from March 2009
• ‘Eve’s Mantle has Been Passed to Us’
  An In Memoriam department feature from the Carolina Alumni Review that appeared in the May/June 2008 issue. It is available online to Carolina Alumni members.
• Eve Carson’s biography
• First Eve Marie Carson Scholarship Awarded
  News report from February 2009
• Two Charged In Eve Carson’s Death;  Second Charged Also in Duke Killing
  News report from April 1, 2008
• Videos of “A Celebration of the Life of Eve Carson 1985-2008”

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