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Atwater sentenced to life in federal prison

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Staff

Demario Atwater was sentenced to life in federal prison last week for the 2008 murder of UNC student body president Eve Carson.

Atwater pleaded guilty earlier this year to first-degree murder in connection with Carson’s death so that prosecutors would take the death penalty off the table. Carson, an Athens, Ga., native who came to UNC as a Morehead-Cain scholar, was shot and killed in a robbery during the early-morning hours of March 5, 2008.

A federal judge in Winston-Salem ordered Atwater to pay $212,947.10 in restitution. In addition, Atwater must enter a substance-abuse program and undergo a psychological examination.

Atwater has 13 days to appeal the sentence. The state has not yet set a date for the trial of Laurence Lovette, who is also a suspect in the Carson murder.

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