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PrintEve Marie Carson - Her Inspiration Lives On
News Type: Other — Fri Mar 7, 2008 9:32 AM EST
This undated photo of Eve Carson, student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was released by the university Thursday, March 6, 2008. Police Thursday identified a young woman found shot dead in a Chapel Hill, N.C., residential neighborhood as Carson, 22, of Athens, Ga. Authorities had no suspects in her death. (AP Photo/Courtesy of UNC, Jim Stratford)
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Eve Maria Carson, 22, was a senior and the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But that is just a sliver of information about this young beautiful girl whose life was ended tragically in, what police call, a "random crime." [ North Carolina Student President Killed ]
Hailing from Athens, Georgia, she was a Morehead-Cain scholar and a North Carolina Fellow. She had been taking part in a four-year leadership development program for undergraduates. She was a premed student, majoring in political science and biology, while teaching science at a Chapel Hill elementary school. She studied abroad in Cuba and spent summers volunteering in Ecuador, Egypt and Ghana as part of a school program.
Yes, indeed, this young woman's future bore all signs of being not just your average adult in the world.
But now she is dead, her promising life ended when someone shot her several times and including at least once in the head, according to police. So police call this a "random crime" and I can imagine that term not bringing much comfort to the friends who will miss her and the family who will mourn her.
Why do the brightest stars seem to extinguish early? This young beautiful lady, with so much potential ahead of her was already living today as if she somehow knew not to waste her time in the present. I admire this a great deal and take this as a lesson in my own life.
So even in her death, I hope she can somehow continue to benefit others about the virtues of living in the now. She was an angel, perhaps. Here to teach us to embrace life now and live as fulfilling a life as possible with what we have today.
My heart goes out to her family and the close friends who mourn Eve Maria Carson. I mourn this loss as well; I mourn her intention upon the world that was lost so early. I am saddened by any fear or pain she may have felt during her last minutes but pray that it's been transmuted for a greater good.
And I want her spirit to know that she has touched me. I will never forget the message that her life has taught me. Forever printed upon my heart, I will remember that my potential can be exercised today. I will remember, thanks to Eve Marie Carson, that my intention for tomorrow may never be realized but that I can continue living in the present as if it will be. And in knowing that, I can embrace my life with verve.
Like she did.
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{"commentId":1550852,"authorDomain":"digits"}
I truly believe in angels on earth and that their presence is to teach us something; to somehow better the people who they come in contact with. Reading the news story of Eve Carson affected me this way. So I had to write something.
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#1 - Fri Mar 7, 2008 9:45 AM EST{"commentId":1551162,"authorDomain":"mrhomer4"}
This article really got me,The strangest thing is she looks just like my Daughter (Aleah),As well The Word says "On Earth we will Entertain Angles and not knowing"So YES the possibility is there,I do agree with you #1. P.S. check your mail,Mark :>)
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#2 - Fri Mar 7, 2008 10:53 AM EST{"commentId":1551901,"authorDomain":"mrhomer4"}
Hey Digits,The AP just put out a release that she was, "Shot Execution Style"to the side of her head.How sad,I hope they find who did it and find he or she Guilty.So Sad,Mark :>(
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#3 - Fri Mar 7, 2008 1:29 PM EST{"commentId":1552120,"authorDomain":"digits"}
{"commentId":1552175,"authorDomain":"mrhomer4"}
They will get the person,And they will get the person quickly because it happened to a student,But it does not bring her back,How sad. m. :>(
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{"commentId":1568082,"authorDomain":"RebelGirl"}
Great article, I am saddened by this and see it as another senseless crime at the hands of a gun.
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#4 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:49 AM EDT{"commentId":1568111,"authorDomain":"funkybunch"}
I am confident that this story will take a turn for the better in a very slight manner when these people are caught. It is absolutely sickening that someone would do this. I think it is only fair to say that this girl had an amazing future in front of her and it is terribly, terribly sad to see this happen. Nice article, Digits.
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#5 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:07 AM EDT{"commentId":1568551,"authorDomain":"dcuben"}
Durham (NC) police picked up a "person of interest" in the Eve Carson case overnight. Details are here.
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#6 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:14 AM EDT{"commentId":1568787,"authorDomain":"RebelGirl"}
You know I wonder if the person who ends a life like this ever thinks about what they might have done, the life that had so much hope and purpose, they snuffed out, do they ever have regret?
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{"commentId":1569489,"authorDomain":"dcuben"}
I can't imagine they can spend much time thinking about what they've done, Mel... that would transcend barbarism.
I live in this community. I work in this community. Our nickname for Chapel Hill is "The Southern Part of Heaven." Things like this don't happen here...
...Well, not often. There was a horrific shooting here in 1993, in which a jogger, Kristin Lodge-Miller, was brutally gunned down by an assailant that had intended to rape her - even though she was jogging on a street jammed with rush-hour traffic. In that case, the DA decided to pursue a charge of murder in the second degree. The (mostly female, mostly African-American) jurors said they would not convict the perpetrator of murder in the first degree, because of his rage... their spokesperson went on to say that unless you are an African American male in our society, you cannot understand that rage. (Sigh...)
I truly cannot understand what makes somebody think an action like this cold-blooded murder - could possibly be alright.
We'll continue to grieve Eve Carson's loss, long after the national spotlight has faded. Our community has been deeply injured, yet again, for... what?
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