HILLSBOROUGH, N.C., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A North Carolina man who was 17 at the time of the crime was convicted Tuesday in the 2008 slaying of a University of North Carolina coed during a robbery.
Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., 21, faces life in prison with no parole, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported. Co-defendant DeMario Atwater, 25, pleaded guilty last year in exchange for a sentence of life in prison with no parole.
Eve Carson, 22, of Athens, Ga., was president of the student body at the university's Chapel Hill campus when she was killed in 2008. Orange County prosecutors said Lovette and Atwater drove her in her own car to ATMs in Chapel Hill and Durham and forced her to withdraw hundreds of dollars before shooting her. The pair were arrested at homes in Durham.
"This case is such a tragedy," Assistant District Attorney James Rainsford said in his closing argument. "What the defendant did to Eve Carson was greedy, miserable and cruel. It was useless, and that's what murder is."
