Autopsy: UNC student president blasted with shotgun

I really wish this information was not released to the public.

Why do we need to know the gruesome details of her murder before a trial has been completed?

The media has gotten ridiculous with their constant pursuit of the top the story.

This is sickening.

wow, those scumbags really wanted her dead, and shooting someone in that manner indicates an element of rage and/or hate....

Fed Up-CH wrote:

I really wish this information was not released to the public.
Why do we need to know the gruesome details of her murder before a trial has been completed?
The media has gotten ridiculous with their constant pursuit of the top the story.
This is sickening.

So you're saying that there's a limit to what information citizens should have a right to when it comes to public information? You would place limits on what journalists can report? How? Regulation? Threat of arrest? People's right to information is as important as the right to own guns -- even more so, really. Are you upset that the story was reported, or that you read it? As a reader, you could have stopped at the headline and read another, less upsetting story, you know?

Fed Up-CH wrote:

I really wish this information was not released to the public.
Why do we need to know the gruesome details of her murder before a trial has been completed?
The media has gotten ridiculous with their constant pursuit of the top the story.
This is sickening.

If you have a problem, don't read it then, or better yet, write to the Citizen-Times and tell them how you feel about what they are reporting. Voicing your dis-taste here won't fall on the correct ears.

I'm not condoning the reporting of what happened one way or another.

I think the act was very gruesome and those involved with her slaying deserve to die.

This is gruesome information, and tough to bear. This young lady was very much like my own daughter in many ways, and it is horrifying that such a thing could happen to anyone - much more horrifying that it should happen to a wonderful young lady with such a future ahead of her.

There is, however, a certain "need to know" in the public. We need to be gruesomely reminded that there is Evil out there, and that Evil things will happen so long as we tolerate them.

"The only thing needed for Evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" . The quote is pretty close to that, though not exact. We - the public - need to be in a "constant outrage" against evil.

And, against Evil-doers. And this is the exact point at which the Public so often "goes soft". The Evil-doers were disenfranchised. The Evil-doers wouldn't have committed this evil if they had not been in poverty. If we simply "gave" the Evil-doers whatever it is that they want, then they would have left us alone.

How quickly society deteriorates with such reasoning.

I want to know the gruesome details, because I want to be reminded to be "outraged against evil".

This story is so sad. The harsh reality of the situation is that something like this happened in a seamingly quiet and safe environment very similar to Western North Carolina. This could have been me, it could have been your daughter, it could have been your cousin, grand-daughter, etc. What I am very disturbed by in this story is the use of language that the Associated Press used. "BLASTED" appears multiple times in this article. I find it very offensive and very non-sympathetic to the victim and her family. I do understand the perspective of the journalist, but feel that the use of language could have been a little more appropriate. It is very hard for me to even read articles like this, much less go through this shocking death on UNC's campus just 4 months ago. I am hurt when I read the articles about her death, as she was a friend, but to use "blasted with a shotgun" in the title of the article would not be appropriate for any murder case.

WNC Observer wrote:

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So you're saying that there's a limit to what information citizens should have a right to when it comes to public information? You would place limits on what journalists can report? How? Regulation? Threat of arrest? People's right to information is as important as the right to own guns -- even more so, really. Are you upset that the story was reported, or that you read it? As a reader, you could have stopped at the headline and read another, less upsetting story, you know?

This information should not be released because all it does is give these sh*tbag's attorneys ammunition to say the jury pool was tainted. I don't want there to be the slightest doubt of their guilt, and I don't want them to get off on a lighter sentence because they "didn't have their right to a fair trial".

I want them to pay for what they have done, and the release of this information, I believe, could jeopardize the trial.

I don't think the public should have a right to know that she was shot five times. I don't think the public should have the right to know all the gruesome details of an autopsy report. I don't think anybody but her immediate family, the police, the defense, and the prosecution should have that information prior to the trial.

If Eve were my daughter, I would not want those details released to the public. It is painful reading about what happened to her, and I only had the privilege of meeting her one time. It still feels like I lost someone very close to me.

I did read the autopsy report. This was a horrible way for anyone to die, let alone such a beautiful, intelligent young woman. I too believe that Evil is out there-alive and well. These two thugs need to be severly punished, not "rehabilitated" or "corrected". They need to be punished. I hope that they will face the death penalty. They don't need to be given a date of execution. They need to wait and wonder, like Eve did. They don't deserve a needle, they need to be shot and then lie there and suffer until death occurs. Is this over the top? Considering the crime rate involving no good thugs like these two, I say no. An example must made of these two. It is not the fault of anyone but them. They chose to go get Eve, they chose to rob and shoot her, multiple times. I can't help but see the contrast here: Eve Carson, smart, pretty, driven. Laurence Lovette and Demario Atwater: 0. The world would have been better off without the two of them, yet Eve was taken. My faith reminds me that God is in control and this is all part of His plan. Sometimes that is just hard to accept.

Yes, the autopsy report is made available to the media but to report it in such detail and then to use the word "blasted" in the headline is just too much. I seriously doubt that the term "blasted" was used in the medical report. All in all the article was in poor taste and was written solely to sensationalize a very tragic end to a promising life.

In the interest of explanation, there is a huge shotgun shell that explodes when it hits the target spreading shot all around...thus, the term "blast" as harsh as it sounds is appropriate.

I don't like reading it either, but it is not sensationalism to use an appropriate word.

Fed Up-CH wrote:

I really wish this information was not released to the public.
Why do we need to know the gruesome details of her murder before a trial has been completed?
The media has gotten ridiculous with their constant pursuit of the top the story.
This is sickening.

While your enjoying your nausea and hurling let me say many of us need to know there are such animals at large who will commit such atrocities against innocent people. They didn't just randomly carjack her and kill her. They had focused on her and stalked her and already meant to kill her.
The community should arm itself with shotguns loaded with buckshot too.
And I won't forget how that lazy feckless Durham probation officer in charge of those animals sat on her bum and did nothing while he was on a crime spree. She had the right and the duty to keep him under surveillance and even walk unannounced into his room, for chrissakes. That whole probation department in Durham should be fired, turned out into the streets where they never had the decency to walk and watch and do their duty.