Extra counselors at school after teen’s death

Nicole Madison Lovell, a 13-year-old who was abducted and killed for motives that are still under investigation, is being remembered by people who knew her as an “angel”. The girl’s mother said she climbed out of her bedroom window some time between midnight and 7 a.m. on Wednesday, setting off a region-wide search that drew more than 1,000 law enforcement officials and volunteers.

Weeks says her daughter loved pandas and wanted to be on “America Idol” when she got older.

The arrests followed a four-day search for the missing girl, whose remains were found 90 miles south of her home and the university campus, both located in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Police have not said how Nicole, from the college town of Blacksburg, Virginia, died on or about January 27. David Eisenhauer is charged with first-degree murder and Natalie Keepers faces charges including improper disposal of a body.

Police said they arrested Eisenhauer based on tips and leads obtained from social media, and they say he and Lovell knew each other. Investigators are now attempting to analyze the timeline of the young teen’s death and disappearance and have asked the public to report any relevant information, according to USA Today.

Virginia Tech students said the arrests of fellow students surprised them.

Natalie Keepers, 19, of Laurel, MD, and Blacksburg, VA, was arraigned this morning on one count of Transporting or Concealing a Dead Body and one count of being an Accessory after the Fact.

Nicole was just 5 years old when she survived a liver transplant, MRSA (a drug-resistant bacterial infection) and lymphoma, her mother, Tammy Weeks, told The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/201JsDS). Her body was found near the Virginia-North Carolina border.

Principal James LeMon at Wylde Lake High School says David Eisenhauer was an excellent student-athlete who ran track, had many friends and wanted to be an engineer.

Both have their next court date is March 28.

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.

“It hurts real bad, but now we know she’s in a better place”, said Kyrra Winters, one of Nicole’s classmates.

“My understanding is she was way off down in the woods there”, the sheriff said of the victim’s remains. “It was some off-the-wall site I never heard of”, she told the paper.

“God got her through all that, and she fought through all that, and he took her life”.

Eisenhauer and Keepers were being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail. The clerk’s office said Eisenhauer had retained court-appointed attorney Chris Tuck. She said that the teenager had been bullied in school because of her looks and that she was ashamed of her surgery scars pertaining to a liver condition which almost saw her death prior to a liver transplant when she was five years old.

“That’s all I know”, she told The Washington Post Sunday.

Virginia Tech said on its website that Eisenhauer was a freshman engineering major at the school and that hundreds of students and researchers had assisted in the search for Lovell.

A number listed for Eisenhauer’s parents rang busy.