Both suspects will be held without bail pending a March 28 preliminary hearing, according to the Montgomery County, Virginia, court clerk’s office.
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He is charged with first-degree murder and abduction in the death of 13-year-old Nicole Madison Lovell. She was charged with improper disposal of a dead body and accessory after the fact in the commission of a felony. Lovell’s remains were found in North Carolina, about 90 miles south of her home in Blacksburg, on Saturday, four days after she was reported missing.
8News sister station WSLS obtained arrest warrants for David Eisenhauer.
Logan Fry, a sophomore hospitality major from Roanoke who lives on the same floor as Eisenhauer and also ran track in high school, said Nicole’s death and the arrest of a dorm neighbor was frightening.
The arrests left friends and associates of Keepers and Eisenhauer reeling.
The charges seem at odds with details emerging about the pair.
But the bullying, her mother said, continued on social media.
The Blacksburg community is reeling, too, the police chief said.
Both are jailed without bond, and told a judge they have lawyers.
Before Lovell’s remains were found, 18-year-old David E. Eisenhauer was arrested and charged with the abduction of Lovell.
Weeks said her daughter was a seventh-grader at Blacksburg Middle School.
“When she grew up, she wanted to be on American Idol”, Weeks said.
On Monday night, a woman answering the door at the apartment said the family was not providing any statements to the media at this time. “It was very upbeat and fun”. The message sparked hundreds of replies, with users criticizing her looks, according to the Post. Nicole often cried at the thought of going to school, so Weeks said she often let Nicole stay home. “She was very smart”.
On Sunday, a commenter on the Facebook page of a group that calls itself Justice for Children Without Voices, which has been following Nicole’s disappearance, noted that one of the forums she had frequented was being shut down.
“She was a typical student”, Weeks said. “I want all the information I can get”, he said. “This is just another reason why I love being a Hokie!” On her Instagram page, she posted picture of Maryland with the words “Bittersweet Goodbyes” carefully penned in green cursive.
Last October, she uploaded a photo saying, “I’m single”. Chris Heydrick, who competed against Eisenhauer in high school, told The Baltimore Sun that Eisenhauer was “cocky” but “the dude was mentally tough”.
“He was a little bit on the cocky side”, Heydrick said. “He would be really breathing hard, but he wouldn’t give me an inch”.
Police said one of the suspects is a former Howard County high school track star from Columbia.
“LeMon said it was hard to reconcile the fact that a talented student and athlete was accused of a awful crime”.
“He was a very good student here, very goal-driven and focused, and did very well athletically and academically”, he said. The new charge could mean a life sentence if convicted. Asked to describe the mood of the school, LeMon said teachers and administrators were trying to keep it “a normal school day” for students.
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Sunday, police were on the Virginia Tech campus, where a search and recovery team was focusing on a pond in connection with the girl’s death. State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller would not say what officials were trying to find.
