Auburn freshman murdered, car burned

[jym626]

<p>[11Alive.com</a> - Walton High Grad Killed in Auburn](<a href=“404 Not Found | 11alive.com”>404 Not Found | 11alive.com) This has got to stop. A member of our synagogue, a freshman at Auburn, was found shot, her car burned. She later died. I could use a break from all the tragedy for a while…</p>

[soozievt]

<p>Jym, I had read the article and immediately thought of you when I saw her hometown. This is beyond tragic and no parent should ever have to deal with anything like this.</p>

[astrophysicsmom]

<p>This is horrible. Please post here if any more information (like who? why?) comes to light on this.</p>

[rodney]

<p>Uh, spooky…I am watching “criminal minds” on CBS as we speak and the story is about a series of female shootings on a college campus…Jym; so sad…condolences…</p>

[jym626]

<p>oooh, spooky, rodney. thanks all. I don’t really know this family, and my s doesnt know theggirl, but it is so painfully unnecessary. I will post updates as I hear, astrophysicsmom.
Ironically, this weekend was the first anniversary of that awful bus accident on the highway here, where 5 students from an Ohio college baseball team , the busdriver and his wife were all killed. Lots of stories in the news about how the team is doing, its first game of th4 season (in the tournament to which they were heded last year) how the surviving players are coping, and… the lawsuits that followed. Sigh…</p>

[menloparkmom]

<p>Oh God jym! I am so sorry.</p>

[lspf72]

<p>Oh how awful. Who could do such a thing? Do they think it started as a carjacking? Poor girl, poor family.</p>

[HisGraceFillsMe]

<p>That is awful. My prayers are with your town and the family and friends of those who knew the girl.</p>

<p>I’ve been hearing a lot of stories recently of terrible things like this…it’s so weird to know that this stuff doesn’t just happen on the news, but to people you know (or a friend of a friend type thing).</p>

[jym626]

<p>update from our local paper:

Auburn, Ala. — Police have interviewed some “persons of interest” but had made no arrests by early Thursday in the death of Auburn University freshman Lauren A. Burk of Cobb County. She was found shot a few miles from the campus on Tuesday night.</p>

<p>“We have not named a suspect and are still investigating leads,” Auburn police Capt. Tom Stofer said, adding that officials are remaining tightlipped because of the circumstances of Burk’s death. Earlier, a spokesman at the department’s offices had said “persons of interest” were interviewed, but he declined to say how many or who they were.

and:

Barrs said Burk and her longtime boyfriend attended Auburn together, and that Burk’s older sister also is an Auburn student. Family members told Barr that the couple were together about two hours before Burk’s killing, but Burk was going to the library to study with friends “and never made it there,” Barr said.

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[MomofWildChild]

<p>I am so sorry. This is horrible.</p>

[Hanna]

<p>What a beautiful girl. I can’t imagine what her family must be going through.</p>

[mercymom]

<p>jym626 -</p>

<p>I am so, so sorry for your community and church family. You will all be in my prayers today. My oldest D’s best friend goes to Auburn. We almost sent D there. It seems like such a safe place, but apparently tragedy can happen anywhere. My heartfelt condolences to all involved.</p>

[cangel]

<p>Jym, my heart goes out to her family.
So much angst here, many, many Auburn students and kids with friends at Auburn.
No details yet, but it sounding like a carjacking or robbery gone bad - some sort of random act that is even more frightening than an act of violence by someone connected with the victim.</p>

[jym626]

<p>Thanks for the update, cangel. I was talking with someone earlier and we agreed that it sounds like a possible carjacking, with the vehicle having been found set ablaze a few miles (I believe) away. This has also stirred my unsettled feelings about the missing Rice student. Little has been heard about that, and there are no clear solid leads. It has been almost 3 months.</p>

<p>Cangel, please keep us apprised of the local info from your end. Thanks!</p>

[lje62]

<p>what a nightmare, and it does , no doubt hit close to home when it is someone from your community.
A college student at a rather small state school about an hour away from us was robbed and beaten ( to death ) early in the fall.
So senseless and still remains unsolved. Though I didn’t know him, it bothered me a lot since the young man is the same age as one of my kids.</p>

[cangel]

<p>Unfortunately, we may not have many details on our local news - a high school student just committed suicide this morning, at school, in the gym in front of about 150 kids - the whole community is reeling.</p>

[jym626]

<p>OMG, cangel,
That is absolutely tragic! How awful for everyone involved.</p>

[soozievt]

<p>It is getting so difficult to daily read of more and more tragedies, often involving our young people who had such promise ahead of them.</p>

[cangel]

<p>That’s what we were just saying - it seems like one terrible thing after another.</p>

[HisGraceFillsMe]

<p>^Tell me about it.</p>

<p>My sophomore year, a boy in our class was hit by a car and died two days later when they took him off life support (He was almost instantly braindead, so the doctors said). We’re going to buy him a full page in the yearbook and we want to wear black ribbons on our gowns at graduation, but still…it’s just not the same.</p>