In her final moments, Eve Carson asked her killers to pray with her

Posted Dec 14, 2011
On the night of March 4, 2008, Jayson McNeil received a call from his childhood friend Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. asking for a ride to Chapel Hill. Lovette, who is on trial for the March 5, 2008 murder of former Student Body President Eve Carson, asked McNeil to drive him and a friend he called “Rio” to Chapel Hill, where McNeil said Lovette planned to rob someone. (Daily Tar Heel)

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