Second Person Sought in UNC Student President Murder

by Rob Walker | March 10, 2008 at 07:01 am
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UNC Chapel Hill News Conference regarding Eve Carson
Chapel Hill police have released a number of pictures of a young black man believed to be connected to the murder of 22-year-old student body president Eve Carson. Using imaging software, the outline of a second person has been identified in the back seat of the car. This person is also being urgently sought by authorities.
The images are from an ATM surveillance camera which allegedly caught this person using her bank card shortly after her death. The car the suspect is driving looks to be the same as Carson's 2005 Toyota highlander, found abandonded a few miles from her body.
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A second person might be in the vehicle driven by the man who used Student Body President Eve Carson's bank card, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reports.

Surveillance photos released Saturday show what could be a figure in the back seat through the passenger side rear window and between the front seat head rests. Police have said the vehicle could be Carson's 2005 Toyota Highlander.

For full-size photos, click here and here.

"We believe there may have been a second person in the vehicle," Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran told The News & Observer. "At this point we've got a variety of theories, and that's certainly one of them."

Carson was shot to death early Wednesday morning and was identified Thursday. She was buried today in her hometown of Athens, Ga.
[q
url="http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=39696&cat=0"]The
focus of the investigation has turned to a young male seen at an ATM
machine in what may have been Carson’s SUV. Police have said the man was trying to use Carson’s
ATM card and in the photo there appears to be a second individual in
the backseat.[/q][q
url="http://www.charlotte.com/109/story/530143.html"]Police now think a
second person may have been in the vehicle driven by a man they say was
trying to use slain UNC-Chapel Hill student Eve Carson's ATM card.

Black-and-white photographs distributed at a Saturday news conference
show what looks like a figure in dark clothing in the back seat of the
vehicle. What looks like a person's chest and right shoulder can be
seen between the driver's seat and head rest.[/q]The Daily Tarheel, the UNC student newspaper, has a large tribute site for Carson, you can find it here. Carson's funeral was held on Sunday.[q
url="http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/03/09/carson_0310_web.html"]A
standing-room-only crowd packed into the 800-seat sanctuary of First
United Methodist Church to pay final respects to a young lady many said
could have changed the world.

Lifelong friend Amble Johnson said Carson was on a clear path to success.

"She had great potential, but she also used all of her potential," said
Johnson, who had known Carson since they were 5 years old. "She
could've succeeded at whatever she wanted to."

In a statement delivered through the Rev. Bill Britt during the
funeral, Carson's father Bob Carson lamented his daughter's death.

"The senseless murder of my sweet, sweet Eve saddens our family," the
statement read. "The irony of Eve's murder is that she and her peers
can solve the most pressing problems of our day, they are so bright."

Carson, 22, was found shot to death early Wednesday morning less than a
mile from her home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Athens police found her SUV
later that day, more than a mile away from where her body was
discovered.

Authorities now are looking for a suspect whose photo was taken at an ATM in what is believed to be Carson's vehicle.

Britt, whose daughter Sarah was one of Carson's childhood friends, began his eulogy by expressing his and others' hurt.

"Oh, Lord, our hearts are broken," he said. "We should not be here this afternoon. It is too soon to be remembering Eve."[/q][q url="http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/03/07/roy-williams-says-eve-carsons-death-has-affected-the-tar-heels/"]After cancelling a press conference yesterday, today North Carolina coach Roy Williams addressed the murder of UNC student body president Eve Carson. Carson was found shot to death on Wednesday at a Chapel Hill intersection with her SUV abandoned a mile away.[/q

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