Prosecutor upgrades charges for Virginia Tech student in girl’s death

Police say the 13-year-old girl allegedly stabbed to death by two Virginia tech students may have texted with her murderer before her abduction.

Investigators have released no details about what happened to 13-year-old Nicole Madison Lovell after she climbed out of her bedroom window last week.

The body was found not far from an exit on Route 89 in Surry County, North Carolina.

But police say that life ended last Wednesday at the hands of two Virginia Tech students.

Just exactly what Natalie Keepers is accused of doing still hasn’t been explained.

Mary Pettitt, Montgomery County Commonwealth’s Attorney, made the announcement during a news conference in Blacksburg on Tuesday. Natalie Keepers, 19, is being held on a felony count of improper disposal of a dead body and one misdemeanor count of accessory after the fact in the commission of a felony.

We’ve also learned, Lovell’s preliminary cause of death is stabbing, Pettitt said.

When Jane Lillian Vance heard that 13-year-old Nicole Lovell was missing, she couldn’t believe it was happening again. The child survived and returned home, but at age 4, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

(Tammy Weeks via AP). And third, there was a bout with acute respiratory syndrome and antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus that led doctors to give her a mere 1% chance to make it. “After eight months in the hospital, she was released and she started to thrive”.

“Her parents had high expectations for her and really did push her academically”, Jenkins told The Daily Beast. It includes the family’s thanks to law enforcement officials and the community and is accompanied by a portrait of Nicole showing her blue eyes and face framed by long brown hair, superimposed on a background of clouds.

Her fate devastated her mother, Tammy Weeks, who spoke at a Tuesday news conference, describing the health problems her daughter battled and the joys in her short life. Overcome by emotion, Weeks left the podium before she finished reading her statement.

“She said that he was 18, but I didn’t think it was real”, the 8-year-old girl, Jaydon Snider, told the Times.

Albert said that Keepers, a sophomore engineering student, helped dispose of Nicole’s body.

Eisenhauer said “I believe the truth will set me free” after he was arrested on Saturday, a police document says.

Authorities said Eisenhauer had a relationship with the girl, and used that to lure her to her death. Weeks shared two photographs of her daughter, 13-year-old Nicole Madison Lovell, whose body was found Saturday across the state line in North Carolina.

The funeral home’s online obituary says Nicole was born in Radford, loved to sing and dance, and was a member of Auburn Baptist Church.

“We knew there were some issues at one time with her on these sites and we addressed them and I guess we didn’t do enough”, her father, David Lovell, told CBS News correspondent Don Dahler.

David Eisenhauer, 18, a freshman at Virginia Tech, had been charged with kidnapping and murder. While police aren’t saying what they’re looking for, we saw investigators with what looked like metal detectors scouring the water.

Nicole had a passion for pandas, music and dancing, and dreamed of being on “American Idol” some day, her mother said.

“She was a typical student”, Weeks told the Washington Post on Sunday.

On campus, state police divers continued to search a pond, and wouldn’t say what they hoped to find.

Blacksburg police Chief Anthony Wilson spent part of Tuesday morning talking to Nicole’s mother, Tammy Weeks, leaving the family’s apartment around 10:45 a.m. The investigation remains “very active”, he said.

Eisenhauer, who is from Columbia, Maryland, ran cross country at Virginia Tech, and in 2015, while still in high school, he was named the Howard County, Maryland, indoor track Athlete of the Year, according to the Baltimore Sun.