A second Virginia Tech student has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a 13-year-old girl, police said Sunday. Lovell’s parents say she disappeared after climbing out of her bedroom window.
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Authorities discovered Lovell’s body in Surry County, N.C. Saturday morning and charged Eisenhauer with abducting and murdering the 13-year-old liver transplant patient hours later. Police are working with the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation, the FBI office in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s Office to gather more information, according to Blacksburg Police Chief Anthony Wilson. Keepers, who was reportedly his accomplice, was charged with improper disposal of a body and accessory after the fact in the commission of a felony.
Albert said that police have determined that Eisenhauer knew Lovell but declined to comment on the nature of their relationship.
Police found Lovell’s remains in Saturday afternoon Surry County, North Carolina, just beyond the Virginia border and about 60 miles south of her home in Blackburn. Nicole’s body has been taken to a medical examiner’s office for an autopsy.
In a statement, Virginia Tech said the entire school community extended its support to the family and friends of the missing girl.
Investigators are trying to figure out how the pair met, Wilson said.
Nicole went missing in the Lantern Ridge area of Blacksburg, Va on Wednesday around midnight.In a Facebook post, her father, David Lovell, said he was devastated. Tonight, both suspects being held without bail. “And as the mayor, while I know that Blacksburg is a safe community, on occasion the town and the Virginia Tech community have suffered inexplicable tragedies such as this”.
A second student was arrested Sunday. He was named the Howard County indoor track Athlete of the Year in 2015 and was a two-time Class 3A state runner-up in cross country.
Eisenhauer, of Columbia, Maryland, is a freshman engineering major at Virginia Tech and was staying at a dorm on campus where he was arrested, police and the university said.
Police haven’t said how or why she was killed.
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According to reports, David Edmond Eisenhauer was a freshman engineering student who was an avid sportsman.
