Authorities Arrest Second Suspect Wanted in Slaying of UNC Student Body President

(Raleigh News & Observer) - Durham police early today arrested Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr., the second suspect in the slaying of UNC-Chapel Hill student Eve Carson.

Lovett, 17, surrendered peacefully about 4:16 a.m. after negotiating with police from a home in the Hope Valley Farms subdivision of South Durham.

In a news release, the police department said an anonymous tipster had told the Durham Sheriff's Office about Lovett's location. Police tried for more than an hour and a half this morning to establish communication with Lovett, before reportedly tossing a telephone into the house at 1914 Cook Road.