Nicholas Stix proclaims Eve Carson doomed by diversity:
Eve Carson was the golden girl — pretty, popular, brilliant, altruistic. Funny, too.
Born and raised in Athens, Georgia, Carson had been her high school class president, and was elected student government president at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A senior, double-majoring in political science and medicine, she was an aspiring doctor. Attending UNC on a Morehead-Cain Scholarship, she was a North Carolina Fellow and a Phi Beta Kappa, taught science in an elementary school, tutored in a middle school, mentored girls in a track/character-building program, and volunteered summers in Third World programs. Whew!
But all that ended when a couple of black thugs turned her into yet another statistic.
At 3:30 a.m., on March 5, 2008, Carson was kidnapped by Demario “Rio” Atwater and Laurence Lovette Jr., as she left her house to get into her SUV.
Carson’s killers had been stalking the parking lot of a sorority house down the street. Caroline Harper, a UNC alumna who was then living in the sorority house, testified at Lovette’s trial that
…she had just finished talking to her boyfriend on her cell phone about 3:30 a.m. on March 5 when she saw two black men in their late teens or early 20s standing in the parking lot of her sorority house….
They were standing there looking at me,” Harper said. “It was just a couple of seconds before I got really frightened and drove away.
[Lovette trial spotlights ATM use by Anne Blythe, The News and Observer, December 9, 2011.]
While Atwater held Carson at gunpoint in the back seat and sexually molested her, Lovette drove her SUV from bank to bank. A surveillance photograph showed Lovette using a drive-through cash machine. The killers were ultimately able to withdraw a total of $1,400 from her account.
The killers shot Eve Carson in the face and the head, one with a .25 caliber pistol, and the other with a shotgun, obliterating the right side of her pretty face. When the prosecution showed the jury autopsy photographs, some jurors wept.
Unusually, Eve Carson’s murder got national publicity, probably because of her own leftwing activism. A U.S. senator, a congressman, a mayor, and the chancellor of her university variously published or read eulogies for her. At Carson’s funeral in Athens, UNC Chancellor James Moeser spoke of how she embodied “the Carolina way” of “excellence with a heart,” and called her “a force of nature.”
But here’s the back story: If the criminal justice system had done its job, Eve Carson’s killers would both have already been in jail.
Atwater and Lovette were both on probation. Each had been arrested repeatedly prior to Carson’s murder—without ever being returned to jail for violating probation. Atwater, who had been convicted in February 2005 of felony breaking-and-entering, was even convicted of a further felony, possession of a firearm, in June 2007—yet still wasn’t incarcerated!
Meanwhile, Lovette’s probation officer, Chalita Nicole Thomas, who had never met with him, was herself arrested 11 times over the course of four years—at least twice for DUI, and once for carrying a concealed weapon. [Probation officer never met with Lovette | abc11.com, March 26, 2008]
The Main Stream Media declined to report what her other eight arrests were for—and then “disappeared” Thomas’ story. [See video of Thomas’s arrest record.]