After slaying, Virginia Tech students in court

Blacksburg Police say David Eisenhauer, 18, was arrested Saturday and charged with first-degree murder and abduction in the death of Nicole Madison Lovell, who disappeared from her home Wednesday. Hours later, he was charged with first-degree murder after Virginia State Police located the remains of Nicole Madison Lovell on Route 89, in Surry County, N.C., along the Virginia line, Blacksburg police said…. Eisenhauer became the subject of the police investigation Friday and he was arrested Saturday, charged with abduction, the Blacksburg police said.

Weeks said her daughter was a seventh-grader at Blacksburg Middle School.

Virginia State Police divers searched a pond on the Virginia Tech campus on Sunday. Blacksburg police Lt. Mike Albert, right, listens as Blacksburg Police Chief Anthony Wilson speaks during a news conference Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, in Blacksburg Va. Virginia Tech student, David Eisenhauer, has…

Police initially charged Eisenhauer with abduction; he was charged with murder once the girl’s remains were found.

According to The Roanoke Times, police first arrested Natalie Marie Keepers, 19, Sunday morning on a felony charge of improper disposal of a body and a misdemeanor charge of being an accessory to a felony after the fact.

Both are being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail.

Two Virginia Tech students accused in the death of a 13-year-old girl have made their first appearances in a courtroom. She survived a liver transplant, MRSA and lymphoma when she was 5, Weeks said.

“That’s all I know, “Tammy Weeks, the teen’s mother, told the Washington Post. I have never had anything like this happen in my 36 years of life”.

“The speed at which this investigation has moved today has been nothing less than incredible”, Wilson said Saturday.

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – A Virginia teenager whose body was found over the weekend overcame serious health problems as a young girl and was then bullied at her school and online before her death, her mother said.

It was on social media where Nicole may have met Eisenhauer recently, Weeks said police told her. “That’s all I know”, she said. Family and friends anxious that lovell a liver transplant recipient, needed medication daily.

University officials said Eisenhauer had been suspended.

Weeks said she found a nightstand pushed up against her daughter’s bedroom door and that her window was open.

“Speaking on behalf of our community, let me say that our hearts go out to Nicole’s family and friends”, he said in a statement posted to the school’s website.

Eisenhauer was as a standout track and field athlete in high school, who was named Boys Indoor Track Performer of the Year by The Baltimore Sun in March.

Keepers, a sophomore general engineering student at Virginia Tech, graduated from Hammond High School, Howard County schools spokesman John White confirmed.

A number listed for Eisenhauer’s parents rang busy.

Thomas Lee lives across the street from the family of Natalie Keepers in Laurel, Maryland.