Demario Atwater Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of UNC-Chapel Hill Student Eve Carson

You will recall some time ago we blogged about the untimely death of UNC student Eve Carson in 2008. She was murdered by two thugs, Demario Atwater and Laurence Alvin Lovett. Well, Atwater will spend the rest of his life in federal prison for her murder, that's according to the sentence the judge handed down Thursday.

Atwater of Durham received a life sentence  on a charge of kidnapping resulting in death and a 10-year sentence on a separate charge of discharging a weapon resulting in death, plus another life sentence and two additional 10-year sentences to run concurrently on federal carjacking and weapons charges.

Federal District Court Judge James Beatty also imposed restitution of more than $212,000 to be paid monthly if Atwater ever gets out of prison. Beatty noted hat statutes required him to set a payment schedule. Source: Charlotte Observer

Atwater apologized to the family and said, "I'm sorry for for everything that's happened""No matter what the court did today it would be far from anything i should receive." Let's hope he has come to the realization that a life of crime does not pay and he will spend the rest of his behind bars, another life lost. Lovett's case is pending in Orange county.