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.