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[h=4]Second Virginia Tech student arrested in teen's death[/h]The teen from Virginia who went missing on Wednesday was found dead on Saturday night, police said.
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David E. Eisenhauer is accused of killing 13-year-old Nicole Madison Lovell of Blacksburg, Virginia. Her body was found about 80 miles away in Surry County, North Carolina. VPC
This January 2016 photo provided by Blacksburg Police Department shows Virginia Tech student Natalie Keepers.(Photo: AP)
The grim death of a 13-year-old girl and arrest of two promising Virginia Tech<span style="color: Red;">*</span>students<span style="color: Red;">*</span>has cast a pall over the idyllic college town of Blacksburg in the rugged, picturesque<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Blue Ridge Mountains.
Nicole Madison Lovell, 13, vanished from her Blacksburg home early Wednesday. Her body<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was found late Saturday along a highway just over the Virginia border in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Surry County, N.C., police said. Surry is about 90 miles south of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Blacksburg and Tech's sprawling, 2,600-acre campus.
David<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Eisenhauer, an 18-year-old<span style="color: Red;">*</span>freshman engineering major and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>member of the cross-country team, was charged with first-degree murder.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Later, Natalie Keepers, a 19-year-old sophomore engineering student, was charged with<span style="color: Red;">*</span>one felony count of improper disposal of a dead body<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and one misdemeanor count of accessory after the fact.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Keepers, from Laurel, Md., helped Eisenhauer dispose of Nicole's body, Blacksburg police said in a statement.
Both students were being held without bond pending court hearings.
The police statement said Eisenhauer and Nicole knew each other before she disappeared and that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Eisenhauer "used this relationship to his advantage to abduct the 13-year-old and then kill her."
The murder and arrests have stunned the college town of more than 40,000 people as well as the university that provides Blacksburg a national identity.
"This is a sad day for the Blacksburg community," Mayor Ron Rordam said. "As a parent, I know that this is an unbearable loss for the Lovell family. 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."
The most notorious of those tragedies took place in 2007, when a campus shooting rampage<span style="color: Red;">*</span>by Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Cho left 32 people dead. A permanent memorial to those victims remains prominently located on the 30,000-student campus.
Rordam and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Blacksburg Police Chief Anthony<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Wilson asked the public for help in finding out more about Nicole's death. Wilson<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said investigators were trying to reconstruct the timeline of Nicole's disappearance and death. Nearby police departments, Virginia State Police, the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>FBI and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the North Carolina Bureau<span style="color: Red;">*</span>of Investigation were among agencies aiding<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the probe.
“This has been an extremely fast-paced investigation,” Wilson said. "We still have a great deal to do as there are multiple interviews to conduct and evidence to (be) collected and analyzed."
In a Facebook post, her father, David Lovell,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>expressed his sorrow.
"I'm so in shock I know nothing more to say," Lovell said. "I'm broken!"
Virginia Tech president Tim Sands posted a statement on the school's website, saying the school community was stunned and saddened by the case. The university was offering counseling to students and others who might be struggling with the news.
"Our hearts go out to Nicole’s family and friends," Sands said.
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Eisenhauer,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>of Columbia Md., was an all-state runner as a Maryland high schooler.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>After his arrest, his named was dropped from Virginia Tech's cross-country roster. School spokeswoman Tracy Vosburgh said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the school was assisting law enforcement "in any way it can."
The school police department and Corps of Cadets aided the search for Nicole's body.
"The entire Virginia Tech community extends its support to Nicole’s family and friends," the school said in a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>statement said.
Her uncle, Fred Hawks Jr., told<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The Roanoke Times the family found a dresser pushed up against Nicole’s bedroom door and believes she climbed out a window. The family also said the girl suffered from a liver condition.
The investigation remained "very active," the police statement said. It said investigators have been pursuing hundreds of leads since Nicole disappeared.
Mayor Rordam pleaded for anyone in the community that might have information about the case to contact Blacksburg police.
"I urge the community to join me in expressing our condolences to the family of Nicole Lovell and remembering them in our prayers," Rordam said.
David E. Eisenhauer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Blacksburg Police)
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