Suspect in UNC slaying student charged with killing Duke student

Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr., 17, is escorted by Durham police officers out of the Durham Police Department in Durham, N.C., Thursday, March 13, 2008. Lovwtte, the second suspect charged with murdering University of North Carolina student body president Eve Sara D. Davis

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Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr., 17, is escorted by Durham police officers out of the Durham Police Department in Durham, N.C., Thursday, March 13, 2008. Lovwtte, the second suspect charged with murdering University of North Carolina student body president Eve Sara D. Davis

By Mike Baker
March 13, 2008

DURHAM, N.C. – Authorities have charged a suspect in the slaying of the University of North Carolina student president with the January killing of a Duke University graduate student.

A warrant filed Thursday charges 17-year-old Lawrence Alvin Lovette Jr. with first-degree murder in the death of Abhijit Mahato.

The 29-year-old computational mechanics doctoral student was found shot to death inside his apartment in January.

Authorities have charged both Lovette and Demario James Atwater with first-degree murder in the death of Eve Carson. The 22-year-old was found last week lying on a street about a mile from campus.