Two slain students from Georgia mourned
Heartbroken mourners in Eve Marie Carson’s hometown of Athens, Ga. searched soul and Scripture on Sunday to understand why someone would fatally shoot the University of North Carolina student body president.
Meanwhile, an Auburn University freshman, slain last week near that Alabama campus, was mourned in her hometown of Marietta, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta.
“We should not be here this afternoon,” said senior minister Bill Britt of Athens’ First United Methodist Church.
“It is too soon to be remembering the life of Eve Marie Carson.”
Carson was found Wednesday morning lying on a street about a mile from the Chapel Hill campus. She had been shot several times, including once in the right temple. Police are searching for a man photographed using her ATM card.
Rabbi Steven Lebow asked hundreds gathered at the funeral of Auburn freshman Lauren Burk to turn their anger into something positive and let the justice system handle her killer.
Burk, 18, was found shot on the side of an off-campus road Tuesday night; her car was found burning in a parking lot.
The mother of Courtney Lockhart, the man charged with killing Burk, said in a television interview that her son was an Iraq war veteran who was changed after his service.
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