Post by Logan on Feb 4, 2016 16:34:46 GMT -6
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Two Virginia Tech students carefully planned the kidnapping and killing of a 13-year-old girl, arranging a pre-dawn rendezvous online after buying cleaning supplies and a shovel at separate Wal-Mart stores, a prosecutor alleged on Thursday.
Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney Mary Pettitt described how authorities believe David Eisenhauer and Natalie Keepers plotted the stabbing death of Nicole Lovell, a seventh-grader who used social media to escape from bullying after surviving a liver transplant and other health scares.
Pettitt did not suggest a possible motive in court, or describe the killing itself. But she said messages on the girl's phone led police to the college freshmen, who had decided together that Eisenhauer would cut the girl's throat.
Keepers, 19, spoke in court as well, telling the judge that she began cutting her own body and had considered suicide "a few times" after being bullied herself in school five years ago. She said she's been in therapy and taking Prozac since then.
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Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney Mary Pettitt described how authorities believe David Eisenhauer and Natalie Keepers plotted the stabbing death of Nicole Lovell, a seventh-grader who used social media to escape from bullying after surviving a liver transplant and other health scares.
Pettitt did not suggest a possible motive in court, or describe the killing itself. But she said messages on the girl's phone led police to the college freshmen, who had decided together that Eisenhauer would cut the girl's throat.
Keepers, 19, spoke in court as well, telling the judge that she began cutting her own body and had considered suicide "a few times" after being bullied herself in school five years ago. She said she's been in therapy and taking Prozac since then.
Read more: hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SLAIN_VIRGINIA_TEEN_SUSPECTS_MDOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-02-04-16-15-17