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On the morning of March 5, 2008, Eve Marie Carson was shot and killed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States where she was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Demario James Atwater and Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., two local men, were charged with her murder. On May 24, 2010, Atwater pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in a plea bargain agreement that will have him serve two sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. In his December 2011 trial, Lovette pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and, like Atwater, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, a sentence that was re-affirmed in a 2013 retrial. The event received national exposure when it was mentioned by a contestant on the ''American Idol'' reality show. A park and a scholarship have been created in Carson's honor. ==Eve Carson== Carson was born in Athens, Georgia, on November 19, 1985, where she attended Clarke Central High School. She was elected president of the high school's student body and was valedictorian. During high school, Carson also began developing a passion for giving to her community as a peer educator at the Athens Area Attention Home. This desire for service continued as Carson began her college career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Megan )〕 Her academic achievements earned her membership in the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, and she was a recipient of the Morehead-Cain Scholarship. While at UNC, Carson majored in political science and biology, in the pre-medicine career path. Outside of class, Carson participated in and led numerous organizations and service projects. She was selected to be a North Carolina Fellow, a four-year leadership development program, and posthumously received the Chancellor's award for most outstanding woman in the senior class and the General Alumni Association's Distinguished Young Alumnus award.〔 Carson was inaugurated as president of UNC's student body in April 2007, and her term was due to expire in April 2008. Carson ran for student body president out of a desire to give to the university and empower UNC students to take an active role in their community. In this role, Carson served as a member of the university's board of trustees and many other committees, but viewed one of her most important roles as representing all UNC students. Carson was especially vocal about providing students more predictable increases in school tuition and fees, one of her major platform points when running for student body president. Her platform also included ideas to provide additional opportunities open to all students, most notably the establishment of a prestigious scholarship for students in their junior who showed outstanding commitment and service to the university, and the creation of an endowment to fund a big-name speaker series that would be free for all students. As student body president, Carson is remembered for her ability to bring together diverse groups of students, faculty, and administrators for a common goal and for her desire to represent the entire student body and their opinions. Carson was also active as co-president of the Honors Program Student Executive Board and as a member of the Committee on Scholarships, Awards and Student Aide, the Academic Advising Program, the Chancellor Search Committee, the Chancellor’s Committee for University Teaching Awards, co-chairwoman of UNC's chapter of Nourish International, and an assistant coach for Girls on the Run. Through her Morehead-Cain Scholarship, Carson continued her passion for service-learning work. Traveling to Ecuador in the summer of 2005, Carson volunteered in the rural countryside as a medical assistant, worked on a coffee farm, and taught computer and technology skills to youth and adults in an indigenous Siona community in the Amazon rain forest. In 2006, Carson studied abroad with UNC's Spring Semester in Havana, Cuba, and spent the summer in Egypt working with a U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit. She continued exploring service learning in Chapel Hill as a reflections leader for the A.P.P.L.E.S. (Assisting People in Planning Learning Experiences in Service) Program at the university. Carson also spent the summer before matriculation to the university participating in a National Outdoor Leadership School program in Wyoming.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of Eve Carson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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