Jury selection nearly complete in UNC murder trial
Opening statements could begin as early as Tuesday in the trial of Laurence Lovette Jr., accused of killing UNC-Chapel Hill's student body president, Eve Carson, more than three years ago.
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Defense attorneys and prosecutors chose the 12th member of the jury Monday morning in the trial of Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., 21, who is charged with first-degree murder in the March 5, 2008, death of Eve Marie Carson, 22.
Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour, however, sent jurors home for the day. Three alternate jurors still need to be selected. Baddour had anticipated only seating two alternate jurors but decided Monday on three.
Investigators say Lovette and Demario James Atwater kidnapped Carson from her Chapel Hill home and forced her to withdraw $1,400 from ATMs before they shot her five times in a neighborhood about a half-mile from the UNC campus.
Atwater pleaded guilty last year to charges in Carson's death and is serving a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole. Lovette also faces life in prison if convicted.
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