LAUREN BURK: COURTNEY LOCKHART, SUSPECT ARRESTED

LAUREN BURK 1989 - 2008
COURTNEY LOCKHART, 22, suspect in murder of Lauren Burk
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Police arrest man in killing of Auburn student

Saturday, March 8, 2008

(CNN) -- Police have arrested a man in the killing of Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk, who died this week, according to the Auburn, Alabama, assistant police chief.

Courtney Larrell Lockhart, 23, of Smiths, Alabama, is charged with capital murder during a kidnapping, capital murder during a robbery, and capital murder during an attempted rape, Tommy Dawson said Saturday.

The Phenix City Police Department took Lockhart into custody on Friday, police said. Phenix City is about 35 miles southeast of Auburn.

Investigators have the suspect's photo, which was enhanced with the help of NASA, Dawson said, according to The Associated Press. Dawson said the photo matched Lockhart, but he declined to say how police got the photo or why they think Lockhart is linked to the crime.

Burk, 18, from Marietta, Georgia, was found shot on North College Street, a few miles north of campus, on Tuesday night. She died later at a hospital.

Minutes after police responded to the call reporting an injured person and found Burk, they found a car -- which turned out to be Burk's -- on fire in a campus parking lot.

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The university's Web site said memorial services for Burk are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at a Marietta church and synagogue, and a campus-wide memorial service will be held Monday.

The site carried a message from Burk's father, James, which said: "The Burk family was so proud to have Lauren as an Auburn University student. We want to extend our deepest gratitude and appreciation for Auburn University, the city of Auburn and the Auburn Police Department. We feel very close to your community. We appreciate what everyone is doing for us and Lauren."

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AUBURN UNIVERSITY MEMORIAL PAGE

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EVE CARSON: POLICE PHOTO OF MURDER SUSPECT

Eve Carson

AP/Chapel Hill Police Department
This undated composite photo released by the Chapel Hill Police Department shows a man at an ATM location.

Police Release ATM Surveillance Images of Person of Interest
in UNC Student's Killing
FOX NEWS/ Saturday, March 08, 2008
FOXNews.com's Heather Scroope and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina police on Saturday released two ATM surveillance pictures of a "person of interest" in the case of a slain university student and said it appeared to be a random killing.

Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran, speaking at a news conference, described the pictures as "our biggest break so far" in the investigation into the death of Unversity of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson.

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Police have yet to identify the person in the photos, who apparently used an ATM card belonging to Carson, a senior who was shot to death early Wednesday on a city street not far from campus.


Curran said police have circulated the pictures with police departments in North Carolina, hoping their officers can help identify the suspect. The ATM photos show a young man in a baseball cap and hooded sweat shirt driving a sport utility vehicle that may be Carson's Toyota Highlander, Curran said.

Police also released a photo of a baseball cap the suspect appears to be wearing in both of the surveillance pictures. Curran declined to say when the pictures were taken.

Carson was last seen around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, when she stayed behind at home to study while her roommates went out for the night. She was known to work late at her campus office, and Curran has said Saturday that "she may have mentioned something about needing to print off papers later that night."

But Curran has said police don't have any evidence that she made it to her office. There were no signs of forced entry to her home and police said they are not aware of anyone who might have been angry with Carson. There are no indications she had been sexually assaulted.


DO YOU KNOW THIS KILLER?
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The university board of trustees has pledged $25,000 as a reward for any information leading to an arrest in Eve Carson's case.

EARTH LIBERATION FRONT: BRIANA WATERS GUILTY

Briana Waters

Waters guilty of arson in UW case
Accused lookout facing 5 to 20 years in prison
By VANESSA HOP-I REPORTER

TACOMA -- Seven years after the radical Earth Liberation Front firebombed the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture, a federal jury on Thursday convicted the accused lookout, Briana Waters, of two counts of arson.

A former Evergreen State College student, Waters, 32, had been charged with five criminal counts, including conspiracy and use and possession of a destructive device, which could have put her behind bars for at least 35 years.

The jury deadlocked on those counts, and Waters now faces five to 20 years in prison.

Afterward, one juror said Waters' 3-year-old daughter weighed on the deliberations, which took four days. A pretty, fresh-faced violin teacher from Oakland, Calif., Waters had repeatedly referred to her daughter, Kalliope, when testifying that she did not help plan the fire and was not at the crime scene.

"It was clearly emotional," said the juror, who declined to give his name. "At the time (of the crime), she didn't have a daughter, but now she does."

Prosecutors said the burning of the research center was part of a six-year arson rampage by regional members of ELF and another group, the Animal Liberation Front. Their fires, which began in 1996, caused $20 million in damage, destroying a Colorado ski resort, sport utility vehicles and genetic engineering labs.

Of the five people charged in the UW fire, Waters was the only person to stand trial. Two defendants pleaded guilty and testified against her for reduced sentences. Another became a fugitive. The fourth killed himself soon after he was arrested.

WHAT A GREAT VERDICT...

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LAUREN BURK, EVE CARSON: 2 GEORGIA COED MURDERED

EVE CARSON

LAUREN BURK

Police Reportedly Close to Arrest in Auburn Student's Death;
UNC Murder Still Unsolved
Thursday, March 06, 2008
FOX NEWS

Detectives in three states on Thursday were hunting for clues in the mysterious shooting murders — a day apart — of two college coeds from Georgia, and sources have told FOX News that an arrest may be imminent in one of the killings.

Police in Auburn, Ala., said Thursday afternoon they are pursuing promising leads as they try to identify who killed 18-year-old Auburn University freshman Lauren A. Burk of Marietta on Tuesday night near campus.

Local reporters told FOX News' Greta Van Susteren Thursday evening that authorities are said to be close to an arrest, though no suspects have been named.

WBRC's Dave Bondy told Van Susteren that Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones had said investigators are investigating the possibility Burk knew her attacker, but the sheriff wouldn't say whether police had confirmed that detail.

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Burk was found with a single gunshot wound to the head around 9 p.m. Tuesday on Alabama Highway 147, three miles off campus. Police said her Honda Civic was discovered 20 minutes later engulfed in flames at the campus.

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Carson, of Athens, Ga., died from multiple bullet wounds, including one to the head. After responding to reports of gunfire, police discovered Carson lying dead in an intersection in a Chapel Hill residential neighborhood close to the university.

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IVETTE DAVILA: SOLDIER KILLS FAMILY, STEALS BABY

Andy Rogers / P-I
Ivette Gonzalez Davila attends a bail hearing in Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma Monday. Davila is suspected of killing a couple in Parkland and kidnapping their child.

Andy Rogers / P-I
Ivette Gonzalez Davila attends a bail hearing in Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma Monday. Davila is suspected of killing a couple in Parkland and kidnapping their child.

Parkland couple shot, then doused with acid
Slaying victims, suspect were Fort Lewis soldiers
By MIKE BARBERP-I REPORTER

TACOMA -- Randi Miller was sitting on her bed. Her husband, Timothy Miller, was in the shower when they both were shot to death Saturday night inside their Parkland home, according to court papers filed Monday in Pierce County Superior Court.

The 22-year-old woman now held on suspicion of aggravated murder and kidnapping -- of the couple's 6-month-old girl -- left the Millers' home after the shooting, bought muriatic acid at Home Depot and returned, the affidavit of probable cause said. She tried but failed to destroy the bodies in a bathtub, a court affidavit said.

The suspect, Spc. Ivette Gonzalez Davila, a member of Fort Lewis' I Corps color guard, shackled and dressed in an orange Pierce County Jail inmate's uniform, appeared at a preliminary bail hearing before Superior Court Judge Ronald Culpepper on Monday. Davila is to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon.

Culpepper ordered Davila held without bond for investigation of aggravated first-degree murder in the deaths of the Millers, who also were active duty Fort Lewis soldiers, and the kidnapping of their baby. Timothy Miller, 27, of Nevada and Randi Miller, 25, who was believed to be from the East Coast, served at the post's Madigan Army Medical Center.

WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?

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ALBA, TEXAS: 16-YR-OLD GIRL KILLS FAMILY OVER BOYFRIEND

AP / March 1: Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm investigators from Rains and Smith Counties, Texas shovel and pick through remains of a rural Alba home.

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Investigators Say Family Opposition to Boyfriend

May Be Behind Brutal Texas Murders
Sunday, March 02, 2008

ALBA, Texas — Investigators say a bloody attack on a rural East Texas family's home may have resulted from family opposition to a daughter's boyfriend.

Rains County Sheriff department confirmed Sunday a 16-year-old girl is one of four suspects being held for the violent murders of her mother and two brothers.

The girl, whose name is being withheld due to her age, is the girlfriend of one of the suspects, investigators revealed. Neighbors told MyFOXDFW.com that the girl's parents, Terry and Penny Caffey, were trying to break up the couple.

The teen was found by police early Sunday hiding at the home of one of the suspects, although it was not clear from the police account which of them she was dating or where she has been hiding.

The four suspects, which include the unidentified teen, 19-year-old Charlie James Wilkinson, 18-year-old Bobbi Gale Johnson and Charles Allen Wade, 20, went before the Justice of the Peace and were formally charged Sunday morning with three counts of capital murder each, police said. All remained in Rains County Jail with bonds set at $1.5 million.

The scene of the attack was about 20 acres of pine-canopied, remote woodland on a narrow gravel road with just two other homes between the small East Texas towns of Emory and Alba. That is about 60 miles northeast of Dallas in Rains County, the second-smallest county in Texas.

Mrs. Caffey, 37, was killed along with her two sons, Tyler Caffey, 8, and Mathew Caffey 13, according to police. All had been shot and stabbed multiple times. Terry Caffey was in critical but stable condition Sunday in East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound to the head.

WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH KIDS?

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RAPPER JUVENILE: DAUGHTER KILLED BY HER BROTHER, ANTHONY TERRELL

Juvenile is photographed in the Atlantic Records artist's lounge in New York in this Dec. 16, 2005 file photo. Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr., 17, was charged Friday Feb. 29, 2008 with fatally shooting his mother and her two little girls, one of whom was the 4-year-old daughter of rap star Juvenile.

John Amis
Gwinnett County law enforcement officers work an investigation, Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, outside the house of a Gwinnett County sheriff's deputy after the deputy and her two young daughters were found dead overnight in their home in Lawrenceville, Ga.

In this photo taken Feb. 29, 2008, by the Gwinnett County Detention Center, Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr. is shown. Terrell, 17, was arrested Friday, Feb. 29, 2008 and charged with killing his mother, who was a sheriff's deputy, and his two small sisters, authorities said.

Rapper 'Shocked' by Daughter's Killing
By JONATHAN LANDRUM – 1 day ago

ATLANTA (AP) — The rap star Juvenile is "shocked and devastated" by the shooting death of his young daughter, the girl's mother and another child, his manager said Saturday.

The 32-year-old rapper is still trying to cope with the death of 4-year-old Jelani; her mother, 39-year-old Joy Deleston; and the woman's daughter Micaiah, 11, whose bodies were found Thursday night in their home, said manager Aubrey Francis.

"It really shocked him and devastated him to the point where I've never seen him before," Francis said. "Right now he is relaxing and trying to grasp everything of what has happened."

Meanwhile, 17-year-old Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr. is being held in the DeKalb County jail, charged in the deaths of his mother — a Gwinnett County sheriff's deputy — and siblings at the home near Lawrenceville, outside Atlanta. He was arrested Friday.

Deleston brought a paternity lawsuit in 2004, claiming that Juvenile, whose real name is Terius Gray, was Jelani's father, Gwinnett County court records show. Both parties later agreed Juvenile was the father.

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Because of his age, prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty against Terrell. A preliminary hearing will be set next week in Gwinnett County Superior Court, prosecutor Danny Porter said.

THIS STORY IS NOT OVER...

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