Chapel Hill Mourns Student Everyone Knew

(The New York Times) - Another college is tested by senseless death. Another heartbreakingly sweet portrait emerges. All-important questions rise from the mourning: Who did it and why?

Unlike the campus shooting rampages at Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University and other places, this latest horror took the life of a single student. But she was the one everyone knew, except perhaps the shooter.

Eve Carson, a senior and student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was shot several times, including once in the head, at 5 a.m. Wednesday morning, police said. The details simply raise more questions and mystery...