Oh the irony...

and i thought it was coach k's cussing that killed this guy.
I'm very upset by the way.



Durham police early today arrested Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr., the second suspect in the slaying of UNC-Chapel Hill student Eve Carson, and charged him also with the death in January of a Duke graduate student.

Lovett, 17, surrendered peacefully about 4:16 a.m. after negotiating with police from a home in South Durham.

Police charged Lovett with murder and robbery in the Jan. 18 slaying of Abhijit Mahato and placed him in the Durham County Jail. Authorities do not expect to transport him to Orange County before Friday.

The new charge against Lovett came as a surprise; he had been named Wednesday as a suspect only in the murder of Carson.

Lovett is the second person charged with killing Mahato, 29, who was shot to death in his apartment at 1600 Anderson Street. Police previously charged Stephen Oates, 19, of Anthony Drive with Mahato's slaying. Oates also has been charged with more than a dozen armed robberies.

In a news release this morning, Durham police said an anonymous tipster told the county sheriff's office about Lovett's whereabouts. Police tried for more than an hour and a half this morning to establish communication him before reportedly tossing a telephone into the house at 1914 Cook Road.

An earlier tip led police to the first suspect in Carson's death. Demario James Atwater, 21, of Durham was arrested early Wednesday outside a home at 1007 Rosedale Ave. He later was formally charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Carson, UNC-Chapel Hill's student body president.

Police did not say who they think fired the shots that killed Carson. But investigators think Lovett is the driver pictured in a pair of security photos of attempts to use Carson's bank card at an ATM.

The spelling of Lovett's name varied in police news releases. Chapel Hill police referred to him as Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr.; Durham police referred to him as Lawrence Alvin Lovette.

State criminal records list several convictions for a Lawrence Lyle Lovette of 1213 Shepherd St., with the same birth date that the police gave for the suspect.

Lawrence Lyle Lovette was convicted in Durham in January on misdemeanor charges of breaking and entering, larceny and trying to break in to a vehicle, according to state records. The State Department of Correction's Web site, however, lists the name as Laurence Lovette.

Virginia Barbee, a friend of Lovett's family from the Pine Knolls neighborhood in Chapel Hill, said Lovett's mother, Melissa Lovette, and her late husband adopted Lawrence.

"The boy just had problems after [his father] died. He was very close to him," Barbee said. "I cannot say that that was a boy that was just bad. He just really fell apart after his adopted father died. [Melissa Lovette] was doing everything she could to just help make a difference, but he just fell apart. His adopted father had just done so much with him and for him that he just couldn't handle it.

"He was a good boy."

Atwater, meanwhile, was being held without bail in the Orange County jail.

Before Wednesday, Atwater's most serious encounters with the law were convictions of felony breaking and entering, and possession of a firearm by a felon. Lovette's criminal record, if any, was not immediately clear.

According to court records, Atwater received three years' probation in 2005 for breaking into a home in Southeast Raleigh. He also was ordered to pay $1,900 in restitution. Atwater stole a cooler and two guns from the home, Raleigh Police Department spokesman Jim Sughrue said.

In 2007, Atwater was convicted in Granville County of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

N.C. Department of Correction spokesman Keith Acree said Wake County officials had started the process of revoking Atwater's probation. A hearing had been scheduled for March 31.