Photos of man using slain UNC student's ATM card are released

Police also focusing on victim's SUV for clues

CHAPEL HILL (AP) - Detectives are searching for a man photographed using the ATM card of the UNC Chapel Hill student-body president found shot to death on a city street, police said yesterday.

Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran released two surveillance photos of the suspect taken at an ATM machine in Chapel Hill, but declined to say when or exactly where the photos were taken. Police also released a photo of a baseball cap that the suspect appears to be wearing in both of the surveillance pictures.

“This is our biggest break so far in this case,” Curran said.

Police: 2nd person may have been in car

CHAPEL HILL (Raleigh News & Observer) - Police now think there may have been a second person in the vehicle driven by a man they say was trying to use slain UNC student Eve Carson's ATM card.

Black and white photographs distributed at a Saturday press conference show what looks to be a large, shadowed figure behind the driver's side head rest. What looks like someone's shoulder can be seen between the driver's seat and head rest.

"We believe there may have been a second person in the vehicle," Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran said this evening.

Police have said the SUV in the surveillance photo could be Carson's blue 2005 Toyota Highlander. If there was a second person in the back seat, it could explain how the killer or killers got away and the SUV was found parked around the corner from Carson's downtown Chapel Hill home.

"At this point we've got a variety of theories, and that's certainly one of them," Curran said.

Police received the images they distributed Saturday electronically and are waiting for the original footage to be sent by Federal Express, Curran said.

"We're looking for original source video," he said.