Bond denied for teen charged in deaths of 2 college students

Defendant in killings of UNC, Duke students appears in court

DURHAM (AP) - A teenager charged with killing two college students appeared in court for the first time yesterday, and evidence emerged that one victim was shot execution-style.

The details of Abhijit Mahato’s death were included in an autopsy report released yesterday by the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Mahato, 29, a computational mechanics doctoral student originally from Tatangar, India, was found dead Jan. 18 inside his apartment a few blocks south of Duke’s campus.

One of the two defendants in his killing, Laurence Lovette, 17, of Durham was ordered held with no bond allowed at his first court appearance yesterday on first-degree murder charges. A few hours later, he was in a different courtroom to face charges in the death of Eve Carson, 22, the student-body president at UNC Chapel Hill. Carson, a native of Athens, Ga., was found March 5 in the middle of a residential street in Chapel Hill about a mile from campus. She had been shot several times. Her autopsy results have not been released.