Two university students charged in death of 13-year-old girl

Blacksburg police officials confirmed that a second Virginia Tech student, who is related to the abduction and death of Nicole Madison Lovell, has been arrested on Sunday morning for collaborating in the dispose of the remains of the 13-year-old Blacksburg girl.

Searchers had been urgently looking for Nicole Lovell after the liver transplant recipient went missing from her Blacksburg home early Wednesday without her daily medication, police said.

A 13-year-old girl who recently had a liver transplant has been found dead on the side of a road, and a freshman athlete at Virginia Tech has been charged in her murder. Eisenhauer, 18, was charged Saturday with first degree murder and abduction of Nicole Lovell. “They can’t control those kids on social media”, Weeks said.

“It’s just very, very surprising”, said her principal, Marcia Leonard. Investigators later found the body of Nicole Madison Lovell on a road just over the North Carolina border, police said.

Nicole’s mother, Tammy Weeks, told the Washington Post that she was told her daughter met Eisenhauer online.

“As a father, as well as Virginia Tech’s president, I want to reassure you that our community is supportive and resilient”, Virginia Tech President Tim Sands said in an open letter.

The remains of the girl were discovered on the Route 89, along the Virginia line in Blacksburg’s Surry County.

Eisenhauer, named Boys Indoor Track Performer of the Year by The Baltimore Sun last March, chose Virginia Tech to pursue engineering while competing with the Hokies’ top college runners, LeMon said.

“She was an awesome little girl”.

Lovell’s disappearance sparked a four day search, that included a thousand members of Virginia Tech’s Corps of Cadets.

Davy Draper, who said he’s a close family friend of the Lovells and knew the teen most of her life, called her an energetic and outspoken girl who got along with everyone. Hours later, police announced the arrest of Eisenhauer, a freshman from Columbia, Md.

The possible motive and Lovell’s cause of death is not known. But a year ago, Eisenhauer quickly became a star at Wild Lake High School.

Virginia Tech issued a statement Sunday confirming the arrest of Natalie Marie Keepers, age 19, a sophomore at the school. Wilson said Lovell’s body will be returned for an autopsy and authorities will work to reconstruct a timeline leading up to her death. He was being held without bond at Montgomery County jail.