They Even Made a Point of Blowing Off Her Pretty, White Face: The Murder and Sexual Molestation of Eve Carson and Its Aftermath Exposed the Institutionalized Racism and Evil of Jim Snow

 

War crime victim Eve Carson 

When the prosecution showed the jury autopsy photographs, some jurors wept.

By Nicholas Stix

Four days ago was the 12th anniversary of the racially motivated robbery, molestation, and murder of white Eve Carson, class president at UNC Chapel Hill, by two racist, black thugs named Demario Atwater and Laurence Lovett Jr.

As my VDARE report below shows, Carson should never have been murdered, because her killers should have been in prison. Every level of the criminal justice system was guilty of racism and negligence, and facilitated her killers.

The first item below is a December 20, 2011 report from The Daily Tar Heel, the UNC Chapel Hill student newspaper, on the sentencing of Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr.

At the time, five reader comments were visible. I added a sixth. Two days later, when I checked for responses, I found that the DTH’s censors had deleted all six comments, and shut down commenting.

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The Daily Tar Heel
URL: http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2011/12/lovette_found_guilty
Current Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:32:50 -0500
Laurence Lovette sentenced to life in prison for Eve Carson's murder
By Chelsey Dulaney | The Daily Tar Heel
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POOL — Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. talks to his lawyers Kevin Bradley and Karen Bethea-Shields Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. A jury found Lovette guilty of kidnapping, robbing and murdering Eve Carson, the 2008 UNC-Chapel Hill student body president. He received a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole. The verdict capped seven and a half days of testimony in Orange County Superior Court.
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More than three years after her death, the second man accused of former Student Body President Eve Carson’s murder has been found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Following eight days of testimony and less than three hours of deliberation, a jury found Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., 21, guilty of first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, armed robbery and felony larceny in connection with Carson’s March 2008 death Tuesday morning.
“This was an absolutely senseless murder.” District Attorney Jim Woodall said. “The citizens from this state need to be protected from Laurence Lovette.”
Judge Allen Baddour sentenced Lovette to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder, and he will serve additional sentences for the kidnapping and robbery charges.
“The life that Ms. Carson led was too short, but I know that she continues to be an inspiration, not only for her family but for thousands in this community and across this country,” Baddour said.
Lovette has sat quietly in the Hillsborough courtroom every day for the past three weeks while law enforcement officials and close friends testified against him.
Carson, a 22-year-old Morehead-Cain Scholar from Athens, Ga. well known for her campus leadership and involvement, was found shot to death on the morning of March 5, 2008 in a Chapel Hill neighborhood about a mile from campus.
Prosecutors say Carson was abducted from her off-campus home in the early hours of March 5, taken to at least one ATM to withdraw money, and finally shot five times by Lovette and his co-defendant Demario James Atwater.
Atwater plead guilty to first-degree murder for Carson’s death in 2010 and is serving two life sentences.
Carson’s violent death shocked the University’s campus, and students came out by the thousands to mourn the loss of the beautiful girl with the bright future.
Carson’s family thanked the court and the jury, but declined further comment to the court.
Lovette and Atwater, both of Durham, had long criminal histories and were in and out of the probation system throughout their teenage years.
Lovette is also charged with the January 2008 murder of Duke graduate student Abhijit Mahato, who was found shot to death in his off-campus apartment.
Carson’s murder
On the night of Carson’s murder, District Attorney Jim Woodall said Lovette was looking for someone to rob, and he planned to kill the person to hide the evidence.
But it was chance that placed Carson — one of the most well-known faces on the University’s campus — into their path.
After attending a UNC basketball game on the evening of March 4, Carson returned to her home on Friendly Lane.
With only a few weeks left in her term as student body president, Carson was busy, and her tendency to procrastinate led her to stay home by herself and study that night.
At about 1:30 a.m. on March 5, Carson’s roommate Justin Singer returned home and saw her studying on the couch.
Carson’s last internet use was at 3:37 a.m. to access Facebook.
Prosecutors believe that at about 3:40 a.m., Carson was leaving her house, possibly to print a paper from her student government office on campus, which friends say she often did.
A surveillance video from a sorority shows two men in dark, baggy clothing walking towards Friendly Lane at about 3:33 a.m.
It is there that prosecutors say Atwater and Lovette saw Carson going towards her Toyota Highlander.
The two men “rushed” her car, and Lovette took the driver’s seat while Atwater held Carson hostage in the backseat at gunpoint, according to a testimony by Lovette’s childhood friend Jayson McNeil.
At about 3:55 a.m., an ATM surveillance video from the Bank of America on Willow Drive in Chapel Hill shows an image of a man who prosecutors say is Lovette attempting to use an ATM card several times.
An enhanced surveillance video from the ATM shows two figures, who prosecutors say are Carson and Atwater, in the backseat.
Whether Carson was taken to any other ATM’s is still unclear, but a total of $1,400 was withdrawn from Carson’s account.
For the more than an hour that Carson was int he car with the two men, Carson pleaded and prayed for her life, even asking her murderers to pray with her, McNeil said Lovette told him.
Prosecutors say Carson was then taken to a wooded area about a mile from campus, where she was shot five times.
A sixth shot hit Carson’s Lenovo laptop, and a bullet was found lodged in the computer by police.
District Attorney Jim Woodall contends Lovette fired the first four shots to Carson’s right shoulder, arm, buttocks, and cheek from a .25 mm handgun.
The fifth shot, fired from a sawed-off shotgun, penetrated Carson’s right hand and temple, destroying parts of her brain that medical examiners say were necessary for life functions.
Prosecutors believe Atwater fired the shotgun, which witnesses called the “baby gauge.”
Carson’s body was found at the intersection of Hillcrest Drive and Hillcrest Circle by police the next morning, and it took another day for them to identify her.
Filling in the gaps
Throughout the course of the trial, testimonies from witnesses close to Lovette and Atwater helped fill in the gaps of what happened on the night of Carson’s murder and link Lovette to the murder.
On one of the most emotional days of testimony McNeil, a friend of Lovette’s and a convicted drug dealer, provided details about Carson’s murder in court.
McNeil’s said his involvement with Carson’s death began unknowingly on the night of March 4, 2008, when Lovette asked him for a ride to Chapel Hill.
On the day of Atwater’s arrest, Lovette called McNeil and asked him to pick him up.
McNeil said Lovette sounded anxious and said repeatedly “They got Rio, they got him.”
After he picked Lovette up, he proceeded to tell him about the murder of Carson, giving details such as how they came across Carson, how Carson pleaded with them, and why they decided to kill her.
Lovette told McNeil that they killed Carson because she had seen their faces.
Shanita Love, Atwater’s live-in girlfriend at the time of Carson’s murder, was also a key witness for the prosecution, recounting to the jury what Atwater told her about Carson’s death in the days following the murder.
Love gave multiple statements to police officials after Atwater’s arrest on March 12, 2008. Her testimonies became key in charging both Atwater and Lovette.
She said Lovette, who she referred to as Alvin, admitted in conversation to “hitting”, or shooting, Carson.
Love also told the court details of how the two men disposed of the what prosecutors say were the murder weapons.
Lovette disposed of pieces of the .25 mm gun in three different locations when she, Atwater, Lovette and another man went to pick up their truck from a Durham auto shop on March 8, 2008, Love said.
She said Atwater and Lovette broke apart the sawed-off shotgun by hitting it on bricks after their pictures began to appear on the news in connection with Carson’s death.
Investigators were able to find two of the pieces of the .25 mm gun at the locations Love described to them.
Several State Bureau of Investigation agents also gave testimonies in court, though most of their testimonies showed no scientific evidence linking Lovette to Carson’s SUV.
But on Wednesday, an SBI agent said DNA evidence found on the car door of Carson’s Toyota Highlander was a “thousand trillion times” more likely to be a match for Lovette than anyone else in the state.
Other testimonies, surveillance videos, and cell phone records helped place Lovette and Atwater near Carson’s home on Friendly Lane on the night of her murder.
Defense’s Strategy
At the beginning of the trial, Bethea-Shields said she planned to show jurors that there would be more questions than answers at the end of the trial. She said those questions would provide jurors with reasonable doubt.
During closing arguments Monday, Bethea-Shields noted the absence of testimony from Atwater, his family, and Justina Staton-Williams — a close friend of Love who provided some of the first details about Atwater’s whereabouts after Carson’s murder.
Throughout the trial, Bethea-Shields has also questioned the motive and credibility of key witnesses close to Lovette such as Love and McNeil.
McNeil and another witness received immunity packages for lighter sentences in crimes they are charged with for their testimonies.
The defense contends that some of the state’s key witnesses — including Love and McNeil — may have made parts of their testimony up to protect themselves and implicate Lovette.
During closing arguments, the defense also argued that Atwater and Love pinned the murder on Lovette, who was a close friend of Atwater’s siblings.
“This case is about blaming the kid that hung out around (Atwater’s siblings),” defense attorney Kevin Bradley said.
Bradley also called into question the validity of expert testimony, arguing to the jury that SBI investigator Ivy McMillan and FBI analyst Michael Sutton among others were erroneous in their work and testimony in the case.
On Thursday, defense attorney Karen Bethea-Sheilds presented no evidence in the trial.
Lovette also waived his right to testify.
During sentencing, Bethea-Shields asked Baddour to not sentence Lovette to consecutive sentences and life without parole — drawing on Lovette’s age and the death of his father as reasons to consider.
Lovette was 17 at the time of Carson’s murder, and therefore he could not receive the death penalty.
“This verdict will be punishment for the rest of his life,” Bethea-Shields said.
Published December 20, 2011 in Eve Marie CarsonCity

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6 comments
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zacki murphy
December 20, 2011 at 11:56 AM
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As I approached my former hometown of Hillsborough, NC, noted the pretty, simple street ornaments, then all the media vans. Was raised a block away in a historical home. Nothing much happened in those days…But, this morning it did. My heart ached as I realized that in the red brick court house, justice was being served for a beautiful, amazing young woman; Eve Carson…Back in 2008, after her senseless murder, attended with thousands of others a memorical service at the “Dean Dome.” Expecting it to be a very sad ocassion, instead left uplifted and motivated. Never met Eve, but felt as if she was a kindred soul sister. Her picture, amongst those of other family, friends hangs on a personal bullentin board as well as the quote; “What would Eve do?”…May her short, but excellent life continue to be an inspiration. It has for me…Rest in peace, beautiful Eve.
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Carolina Canuck
December 20, 2011 at 11:58 AM
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It is just unfortunate that they weren’t able to give him the death penalty.
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UNC student
December 20, 2011 at 12:13 PM
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As a UNC student, I’m in obligated to say that I’m against capital punishment, but in this case I would be OK with frying this asshole.
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amanda ashley
December 20, 2011 at 12:24 PM
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Justice has been done. May thee rest in peace, angel in heaven Eve Marie Carson.
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Unpopular
December 20, 2011 at 1:40 PM
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I will be forthright in saying I was not a part of this community when this tragedy took place, nor did I ever have the opportunity to meet the victim, who by all accounts was an amazing woman whose life was senselessly and unfairly cut short in the most brutal and dehumanizing manner. The details of the murder that I have heard make my blood run cold.
However, I cannot shake the feeling that the outrage and regret that the death penalty was not pursued is so loud in this case because of the victim’s profile in our community, and the fact that this just shouldn’t happen… not in general, but not to white, college educated women specifically. The murder of Eve Carson was outrageous, cruel, and senseless, but so are the murders of countless others every day that go unnoticed simply because the victim was too poor, or too black, or otherwise not fit for the bright lights of the media’s attention. These lives have every bit as much value and worth as Eve Carson’s, and I mourn them just as much as I mourn Eve Carson today, and hope that their families are given the same sense of closure and justice.
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Nicholas Stix
December 20, 2011 at 6:28 PM
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Am I the only person on this board who considers this murder to have been a racist hate crime, or have the censors been working overtime?
I hope I’ve formatted the following link correctly for this board:
“http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2011/12/nc-dept-of-corrections-report-details.html”

“NC Dept of Corrections Report Details Negligence That Led to Eve Carson Murder.”
 

 

Doomed by Diversity: The Murder of Eve Carson
By Nicholas Stix
May 19, 2012
VDARE

Eve Carson was the golden girl—pretty, popular, brilliant, altruistic. Funny, too.

Born and raised in Athens, Georgia, Carson had been her high school class president, and was elected student government president at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A senior, double-majoring in political science and medicine, she was an aspiring doctor. Attending UNC on a Morehead-Cain Scholarship, she was a North Carolina Fellow and a Phi Beta Kappa, taught science in an elementary school, tutored in a middle school, mentored girls in a track/character-building program, and volunteered summers in Third World programs. Whew!
 

 

But all that ended when a couple of black thugs turned her into yet another statistic.

At 3:30 a.m., on March 5, 2008, Carson was kidnapped by Demario “Rio” Atwater and Laurence Lovette Jr., as she left her house to get into her SUV.

Carson’s killers had been stalking the parking lot of a sorority house down the street. Caroline Harper, a UNC alumna who was then living in the sorority house, testified at Lovette’s trial that

…she had just finished talking to her boyfriend on her cell phone about 3:30 a.m. on March 5 when she saw two black men in their late teens or early 20s standing in the parking lot of her sorority house....

“They were standing there looking at me,” Harper said. “It was just a couple of seconds before I got really frightened and drove away.

[Lovette trial spotlights ATM use by Anne Blythe, The News and Observer, December 9, 2011.]

While Atwater held Carson at gunpoint in the back seat and sexually molested her, Lovette drove her SUV from bank to bank. A surveillance photograph showed Lovette using a drive-through cash machine. The killers were ultimately able to withdraw a total of $1,400 from her account.

The killers shot Eve Carson in the face and the head, one with a .25 caliber pistol, and the other with a shotgun, obliterating the right side of her pretty face. When the prosecution showed the jury autopsy photographs, some jurors wept.

Unusually, Eve Carson’s murder got national publicity, probably because of her own leftwing activism. A U.S. senator, a congressman, a mayor, and the chancellor of her university variously published or read eulogies for her. At Carson’s funeral in Athens, UNC Chancellor James Moeser spoke of how she embodied “the Carolina way” of “excellence with a heart,” and called her “a force of nature.”

But here’s the back story: If the criminal justice system had done its job, Eve Carson’s killers would both have already been in jail.

 

Atwater and Lovette were both on probation. Each had been arrested repeatedly prior to Carson’s murder—without ever being returned to jail for violating probation. Atwater, who had been convicted in February 2005 of felony breaking-and-entering, was even convicted of a further felony, possession of a firearm, in June 2007—yet still wasn’t incarcerated!

Meanwhile, Lovette’s probation officer, Chalita Nicole Thomas, who had never met with him, was herself arrested 11 times over the course of four years—at least twice for DUI, and once for carrying a concealed weapon. [Probation officer never met with Lovette | abc11.com, March 26, 2008]
 


Chalita Nicole Thomas
 

The Main Stream Media declined to report what her other eight arrests were for—and then “disappeared” Thomas’ story. [See video of Thomas’s arrest record.]

Additionally, an internal investigation by the North Carolina Department of Correction showed that staffers at every level had botched “Rio” Atwater’s case even more thoroughly than Thomas had botched Laurence Lovette’s.

Although the department was supposed to have subjected Atwater to “intensive supervision”—weekly meetings with a probation officer, mandatory curfew, warrantless searches, etc.—it had not supervised him at all. [See Memorandum (PDF)]

 

The brutal truth: Probation has become an Affirmative Action boondoggle. Blacks and Hispanics commit felonies, get convicted, and are sentenced to probation, i.e. the felonies are on the house. While on “probation,” they continue committing felonies, which are also on the house, as long as they don’t involve “serious” crimes, like murder. [Probe says "red flags" overlooked - News14.com, April 2, 2008]

 

As with the feds’ treatment of illegal aliens, it’s “defining deviancy down” on steroids, at least where “protected minorities” are concerned. In certain jurisdictions, for certain offender groups, not even first-degree murder counts as a serious crime any longer and can also net a killer mere probation.

These meaningless sentences of “probation” are a capitulation to blacks and Leftists who attack the criminal justice system as “racist”—and an excuse for the hiring of do-nothing “professional blacks” (as socialist Jim Sleeper put it in The Closest of Strangers) as probation officers. Ditto for Hispanics.

Note that there was one last chance to save Eve Carson. Black men had no business lurking in a sorority parking lot at 3:30 a.m.—or any other time. Had Caroline Harper called the police, cops could have chased them off, or arrested them for trespassing, at which point the police would have found their weapons.

But Harper couldn’t do that. It would have been “racist.” Today, being accused of racism spells social death for whites.
 
In a more sensible era, contacting the police would have been second nature, and no one would have questioned Harper for doing so.

As it is, had Harper not hit the gas and fled her own home, I might well be writing about her instead of Carson. [VDARE.com note: George Zimmerman would have called the police.]

In April 2010, in order to escape the death penalty, “Rio” Atwater pleaded guilty to murdering Eve Carson. He is officially serving two “concurrent” sentences of life “without the chance of parole,” plus ten years for weapons charges and “was ordered to pay more than $212,900 in restitution.” ["Eve Carson murder suspect pleads guilty to federal charges," WBAL.com, April 19, 2010.]

But the sentences are merely rhetorical. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Atwater will be eligible for a “five-year supervised release”—a euphemism for parole.

On December 20, 2011, Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. was convicted of murdering Eve Carson, and sentenced to “life” in prison.

Lovette is due to be tried for the January 18, 2008 murder of Indian Duke University graduate engineering student Abhijit Mahato. If Lovette is guilty, it will mean that he was already a serial killer at the tender age of 17.

Black predators correctly see college campuses and nearby neighborhoods as sanctuaries full of docile, domesticated, white and Asian prey.

Higher Ed diversity propaganda notwithstanding, college students are still overwhelmingly white. Shouldn’t basic morality and prudence alike dictate that Higher Ed be focused in protecting white students?

Unfortunately, contemporary college campus attitudes regarding race was expressed in 1967 by leftist celebrity sloganeer, Susan Sontag: The white race is the cancer of human history. Never mind that the majority of these people are themselves white! All departments that treat of racial topics ruthlessly suppress and systematically lie about the reality of black crime, and punish anyone who tells the truth about this urgent subject.

And, rather than protect white students, administrators at what I call the “antiversity” endanger them—by withholding vital crime information, insisting that dangerous campuses are “safe,” aggressively admitting and hiring intellectually and morally unfit black and Hispanic applicants, and actively waging war on white students—especially on white men.

 

Investigative reports on the University of Connecticut at Storrs, and the Maryland state and University of California systems have shown an explosion in campus crime, and of conspiracies to cover-up said crime, in violation of the federal Clery Act. (The Clery Act, requiring colleges to disclose crime rates, was passed after Jeanne Clery, 19, tortured, raped, and murdered in her Lehigh University dormitory room by Joseph Henry, who was black. Of course, much of the crime perpetrated by blacks against white students is technically off-campus, as in Eve Carson’s case.)

Rather than do the right thing, college faculty, staff, and even presidents, promote hate crime hoaxes against innocent white, heterosexual men, seeking to railroad them into prison (and in at least one case, succeeding).

One would expect professional feminists to look out for white coeds. But one would be mistaken.

Feminists have amassed wealth and power through activism, fraudulent “scholarship,” and a “campus rape” industry which, while covering up white coeds’ victimization by black men, promotes rape hoaxes victimizing white, heterosexual, men students.

In 2008, UNC-Chapel Hill founded the Eve Carson Scholarship. One of the first recipients, Caroline Fish, “was chosen for the work she did to bring awareness to gender-based violence on college campuses.”

Eve Carson died in vain.

[Update: On July 30, 2014, Laurence Lovette Jr. was acquitted of murdering Abhijit Mahato, though I have no doubt that he killed Mahato.]


War criminal Laurence Lovette Jr. in Orange County Court
 


War criminal Demario Atwater