Two Virginia Tech students arrested in Lovell murder case

Police charged. Eisenhauer with first-degree murder and abduction on Saturday. She was charged with improper disposal of a dead body and accessory after the fact in the commission of a felony.

8News sister station WSLS obtained arrest warrants for David Eisenhauer.

The arrest warrants for Keepers and Eisenhauer include a paragraph that reads “Was firearm used in the offense” – and a box is checked “No” on all four warrants.

A post mortem was being performed Monday and the report was not expected until just before the next court hearing on March 28, the office of the prosecutor said.

Acting on tips and social media, police were able to identify the suspect responsible for Lovell’s death as 18-year-old David E. Eisenhauer, a freshman engineering major at Virginia Tech.

Sheriff’s Capt. Jeff Hallock also said the inmates were picked up by an accomplice shortly after they escaped January 22 from Central Men’s Jail in Orange County.

Police have charged an 18-year-old Virginia Tech student, David Eisenhauer of Columbia, Maryland, with first-degree murder and abduction.

The 13 year old’s body had been found near Route 89, along the North Carolina-Virginia border in Surry County.

Eisenhauer and Keepers are both being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail in Virginia.

The 13-year-old girl went missing Wednesday from her home in Blacksburg, where family members found a dresser pushed up against her bedroom door.

“Eisenhauer used this relationship to his advantage to abduct the 13-year-old and then kill her. Keepers helped Eisenhauer dispose of Nicole’s body”, a Blacksburg police statement said. An autopsy is set for Monday, according to a Baltimore Sunreporter, though it’s unclear when the results will be released.

Lovell’s mother, Tammy Weeks, said in an interview with The Washington Post Sunday that police came to her house about 2 p.m. Saturday to tell her that her daughter’s body had been found.

A fellow runner from Eisenhower’s Club in Howard County, Maryland said, “We’re all just in utter shock…we can’t get our heads around it”. “I’m hurt. It’s unbelievable”.

“God got her through all that, and she fought through all that, and he took her life”, Weeks said. Lovell required regular medication following a liver transplant and had not taken any with her, prompting even more concern from her parents for her return, according to CNN. Nicole had two brothers and one sister.

Police did not announce a motive for the murder or reveal how Lovell was killed, according to USA Today. Her favorite color was blue. “She loved to sing and dance”.

Virginia Tech spokeswoman Tracy Vosburgh declined Monday to answer any questions about the detained students or the victim, pointing to statements the university has published on its website and referring all inquiries about the case to Blacksburg police investigators. “She didn’t like going to school, because she was bullied”.

Lovell often cried to stay home from school, she said. “It got so bad I wouldn’t send her”.

The mother of a slain Virginia teenager says the girl endured bullying at school and on social media before her death.

Officials on the scene wouldn’t specify exactly what they were looking for.

Blacksburg police had previously said that Eisenhauer and Lovell knew each other prior to her murder, but declined to say exactly how. ‘It was some off-the-wall site I never heard of’.