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Shocked I couldnt find a thread on this on here. Terrible stuff right here, for 2 women to be randomly gunned down like this and die the way they died,disgusting. An arrest has been made in the case of Lauren Burk who was a DG at Auburn and there is a lead for the young women who was shot at UNC.
Pretty sad stuff, and a terrible way for both young women to be shot and murdered in cold blood, jesus.
One was at UNC the other at Auburn the girl at Auburn was a DG. How someone is able to shoot a woman in the head, is beyond me. Hopefully both suspects arebrought to justice and then some because this is truly a travesty.
Pretty sad stuff, and a terrible way for both young women to be shot and murdered in cold blood, jesus.
One was at UNC the other at Auburn the girl at Auburn was a DG. How someone is able to shoot a woman in the head, is beyond me. Hopefully both suspects arebrought to justice and then some because this is truly a travesty.
An Auburn University student was found fatally shot on a highway just before her car was discovered in flames on campus, several miles away.
Lauren Burk, a freshman at Auburn University in Alabama, was found fatally shot Tuesday along a highway.
Auburn police were investigating Tuesday's death of Lauren Burk as a homicide but made no immediate arrests.
"As soon as we know more we might release it, but what information we have now we're holding it close to our chest," police Capt. Tom Stofer said.
University officials advised students in an e-mail around noon Wednesday that there was "no indication of additional danger to campus or student safety."
But the school said the police presence on campus had been increased.
Burk, an 18-year-old freshman from Marietta, Georgia, was found wounded on Alabama Highway 147 around 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Auburn police said her Honda Civic was found engulfed in flames at the campus about 20 minutes later.
She died Tuesday night at a hospital. Watch reporter describe details of case »
Gov. Bob Riley's office is offering a $10,000 reward in the case, Stofer said.
An on-campus prayer vigil for Burk was being organized by her friends, and a memorial was being planned by her sorority, Delta Gamma.
"Delta Gammas across the country offer hope and friendship to Lauren's family and all who have been affected by this tragedy," the sorority's national office said in a statement.
Police say they have no leads in the murder of a University of North Carolina student body president and believe the young woman's death was a random, isolated act of violence.
Lieutenant Kevin Gunter of the Chapel Hill Police Department told CBS' The Early Show there were no leads at this time. "We are working tirelessly to try to develop any information we possibly can about any suspects in this case," he said.
Meanwhile, students at the University of North Carolina were in a state of shock Friday after Eve Marie Carson's death. Carson, the president of the student body, was found shot to death this week.
Wearing Tar Heel blue and projecting images of Carson, thousands gathered on the campus of UNC Thursday night to simply reflect on the life of one of its brightest, reported CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller.
"Everyone that ever met Eve adored her," one said.
The 22-year-old's life came to a tragic end early Wednesday morning. Police found her bullet-riddled body lying in the street only a mile away from campus.
Carson, a Chapel Hill senior from Athens, Ga., was a prestigious scholar and the student body president.
Carson was considered an integral part of the local community, volunteering her free time to teach and tutor.
Her brutal murder comes on the heels of another campus homicide. Eighteen-year-old Auburn University student Lauren Burk was found murdered on Tuesday.
Even though the homicides on the surface may look similar, it appears to be unlikely that they are connected.
"It's just a tragic event," Gunter told The Early Show. "Obviously the incident has turned our whole community upside down, to be quite honest. This person was very close to the university, very well regarded in the community. It's just, again, a tragic, tragic crime."
Anyone with information is being urged to call (919) 968-2760 or Crimestoppers at (919) 942-7515.
Carson was last seen alive at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, when she stayed home to do schoolwork while her roommates went out, authorities said. Officers found the body of a young woman about a mile from campus after neighbors reported hearing shots around 5 a.m.
The medical examiner says there's no indication Carson was sexually assaulted.
"My information is she was an extraordinarily busy woman and it wasn't unusual for her to go to the office in the middle of the night," police Chief Brian Curran said. "But we don't know that's what she was doing."
Here is a picture of the guy who was arrested in connection the the Auburn death.
