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UNC Student Body President Slain

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Slain Woman Found Near UNC Was Student Body President

Eve Carson
Chapel Hill police have identified a woman found dead near the University of North Carolina campus Wednesday morning as the university's student body president.

Eve Carson, 22, a UNC senior, was found shot multiple times in the head about a half-mile from campus.

Police have issued a bulletin for Carson's blue 2005 Toyota Highlander with Georgia license plate AIV-6690.

Officers spent most of Wednesday and Thursday morning following up and searching for leads in the case. At a news conference Thursday, they called it a "fairly random crime."

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Chapel Hill Police Department at 919-968-2760.

Meanwhile, an informal gathering has been scheduled at UNC for 3 p.m. at Polk Place for the UNC community, Chancellor James Moeser said.

In a letter posted on the UNC Web site, Moeser described Carson as a wonderful person and a great friend.

"We are saddened and numb with grief," he said.

Carson, a native of Athens, Ga., was a Morehead scholar and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. She was a pre-med major studying both political science and biology.

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Its so unfortunate that these shootings are taking place. Lately, it feels like college shootings and are becoming a trend. I know the police in NC and Alabama said the cases seem un-related, but the thought is very scary nonetheless.

Some students may be very frustrated with their schools/lives, but that doesn't justify taking other lives. Schools should establish some sort of suicide help lines and make sure that the services are available at their school.