Atwater pleads guilty in Eve Carson shooting death

Posted May 24, 2010
One of two men charged in the slaying of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the case. Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour, however, has not yet accepted the plea. Carson's family, from Athens, Ga., as well as members of the Chapel Hill Police Department, are in attendance. (WRAL.com)

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