“She took the bullets. She ate them. She was still alive and talking.”
A university student said “let’s pray” to men who had kidnapped and robbed her, and pleaded for her life before she was shot five times in the head and chest, a US court has heard.
Eve Carson, a 20-year-old popular student at the University of North Carolina, was kidnapped from her home in Chapel Hill about 3.35am on March 5, 2008.
Demario Atwater has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing Ms Carson and is serving two life sentences, but his alleged co-offender 21-year-old Laurence Alvin Lovette Junior has pleaded not guilty.
Lovette was allegedly involved in the kidnapping, in which Ms Carson was pushed into the back of her car and driven around to ATMs to withdraw hundreds of dollars in cash, North Carolina’s Herald Sun reported.
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