<p>Explains some of the questions on why she was out at such an odd hour. Does North Carolina have the death penalty?</p>
<p>[Warrants:</a> UNC student was kidnapped, robbed, shot - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/27/carson.warrants.ap/index.html?iref=topnews]Warrants:”>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/27/carson.warrants.ap/index.html?iref=topnews)</p>
<p>It is very sad, just a promising life cut so short. </p>
<p>Something is really wrong with our society if people can commit such a crime. I hope we can all discuss why we are such a violent society compared to our peers.</p>
<p>Do these types of crimes really happen more often in the US than elsewhere? Why oh why did she have her door unlocked? I also wonder who the “confidential informant” was. I understand that often thieves kill the victim to avoid getting ID’d by them, but when you add rape and being shot multiple times to it, that’s just savage. A friend of ours had a restaurant business with her husband. Her H was locking up one night, alone, and got robbed (the day’s money box). The robber shot him point blank in the face and killed him. Just blew his face off and left him in the parking lot. When he was late getting home, his W drove to the restaurant and found him like that on the ground next to his car. They never have found the killer.</p>
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<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p>Well, Mexico has more murders in some cities as do other countries with a drug war going on. We are probably the worst for modern countries.</p>
<p>Do you think it is the gun laws or the culture? I am personally opposed to guns, but the argument is the bad guys have them and you have to protect yourself. Right now I know a woman contractor who works in New Orleans repairing houses. So many of the neighborhoods she works in, all the houses, or most of them, are vacant that she carries a handgun in her truck at all times, and then brings it in with her while she’s inspecting/working on a house repair. She told me she feels very safe in New Orleans, that the vast majority of the crime is drug/gang related, but she wouldn’t think of going anywhere in town w/o her gun in her truck.</p>
<p>When I told my dying deer story awhile back, the woman who flagged me down to help just assumed I had a gun in the car I could shoot the deer with. These are women, mind you. I wouldn’t know how to shoot a gun if I needed to and don’t particularly want to learn.</p>
<p>Laurence Lovette, 17, was also involved in the robbery and murder of a Duke graduate student from India, Abhijit Mahato. He was shot in his apartment in Durham, North Carolina on January 18th. </p>
<p>Eve was murdered on March 5th in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Lovette is also suspected in several robberies of Duke staff and students in and around the Duke University campus which was referred to in local papers as a “crime wave.” Additional articles state that Lovette was using Mahato’s cell phone which was taken on January 18th. It’s too bad the Durham police were unable to find him in the two and a half months preceding Eve’s murder.</p>
<p>Duke students are well aware of crime in the area - a student was recently attacked with a box cutter and robbed a few weeks ago while walking to his dorm. Chapel Hill has traditionally been seen as safer for college students than Durham. Local newspapers inferred that the murder was the result of “spillover” crime from Durham.</p>
<p>My opinion is that Durham police needs to reprioritize and make the prevention of violent crime its number one focus.</p>
<p>Lovette may be too young to execute. Pity.</p>
<p>Maybe someone from inside the jail will get to him. There are some crimes that even the criminals in jail find despicable.</p>
<p>I would hate being a member of the jury for these trials…to have to hear and process every detail of such a horrible crime. It is awful to know the outcome, but to have to know the details would be so overwhelming. </p>
<p>I was just a juror for a murder trial, and the grief one could sense from the families was overwhelming at times. With the publicity of this case, the community and university response, it will be unbearable. So sad.</p>
<p>I am sure her parents will be present…so I pity them. It is also so sad to know that the police could have arrested him for the otherhe police got him, murder, had they arrested him she could have been alive!</p>
<p>I have been reading more of the news stories about this case. Laurence Lovette was arrested four times in four months. Here is a quote from the Durham Police Chief regarding Lovette’s arrest in November 2007 for burglary:</p>
<p>[newsobserver.com</a> | Lovette held, freed repeatedly](<a href=“http://www.newsobserver.com/2811/story/1081301.html]newsobserver.com”>http://www.newsobserver.com/2811/story/1081301.html)</p>
<p>“It wouldn’t have been an issue if it hadn’t been for the incident at the University of North Carolina,” Lopez said. “If the burglary charge had been brought in this case, it could have been different, but we can’t say it would have been.”</p>
<p>A career criminal at the age of 17. How disgusting!! It angers me that this scum was let out time and time again only to savagely murder 2 innocent victims who were making a difference in this world.</p>
<p>The death penalty is too easy for this one.</p>
<p>laxmom - it also means the Durham police department needs to do its job. If Lovette had been held and charged for the burglary he would not have been on the streets in January and March participating in two murders.</p>
<p>If he had reversed the order and killed a pretty blonde outside Durham first, he probably would have been in jail. There didn’t seem to be much effort on the part of the Durham police to catch him after the first murder. He was making no attempt to hide and was using the guy’s cell phone.</p>
<p>We are a violent society because we encourage and sanction handguns for the general public and private use. Thus, we have millions of whackos running around with deadly weapons, many of whom are using them illegally.</p>
<p>And yes, the US is more violent than other Western countries.</p>
<p>Add that to the Columbia grad student murder, another tragedy befalling America’s youth.</p>
<p>What’s a good source for country by country comparisons of violent crime around the world?</p>
<p>I don’t know how good a source it is, but here are some side by side comparisons:</p>
<p>[List</a> of countries by homicide rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate]List”>List of countries by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>The US has 2-3 (or even seven) times the homicide rate of any other Western nation. Look at Canada, England, or Australia for comparison of significantly lower rates. Or Jordan or Burma or Morocco! Countries like Zimbabwe and Uganda and Columbia have higher rates than the US, but are we really hoping to be compared to counties like those?</p>
<p>I’m just shocked and dismayed all over again. </p>
<p>I know some of you have been to Chapel Hill; but for those who have not, I wish you could see first hand what a quaint, historic, sleepy little town this is… and I wish you could see the cottages and the street from where Eve was taken. She lived a block off tiny Franklin Street practically across from one of the big quads and steps from the President’s home and my daughter’s on campus community. The cottages were flanked by off-campus houses owned/rented by students and fraternities/sororities. Beautiful historic churches, million dollar homes and huge trees line the streets. The lovely narrow, winding streets lined with low stone walls are a pedestrian’s dream and a motorist’s nightmare. </p>
<p>That this sort of evil and violence would touch this seemingly idyllic area just goes to show that there really is no place that is perfect or safe. It’s just hard to take. My heart hurts for the parents of both victims of these monsters. I pray they are punished to the fullest extent possible.</p>