A male lacrosse player from UVa has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the death of a female UVa lacrosse player.
George Huguely, a 22-year-old senior men’s lacrosse player from Chevy Chase, Md., is being held in the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail, according to police.
The victim, Yeardley Love, a 22-year-old senior women’s lacrosse player from Cockeysville, Md., was found in an apartment on 14th Street Northwest early this morning. Police have not yet determined a cause of death, though a statement released this afternoon said Love “suffered visible physical trauma.”
According to the police statement, witnesses have indicated that Huguely and Love “had a past relationship.”
John Casteen, president of UVa, released a statement this afternoon about the death.
“Although we know nothing other than what appears in the Charlottesville Police Department’s more recent statement, this death moves us to deep anguish for the loss of a student of uncommon talent and promise, and we express the University’s and our own sympathy for Yeardley’s family, team-mates, and friends,” Casteen wrote.
“That she appears now to have been murdered by another student compounds this sense of loss by suggesting that Yeardley died without comfort or consolation from those closest to her,” he wrote. “We mourn her death and feel anger on reading that the investigators believe that another student caused it.”
Police are continuing to investigate the case. Anyone with additional information about this incident is asked to call Charlottesville Police Sgt. Mark Brake at 434-970-3970 or Crime Stoppers at 434-977-4000.
A version of this article appeared in the May 4 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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According to another article I read, Huguely attended the same prep school as the lacrosse players from Duke who were accused, and later acquitted, of sexual assault.
I doubt that it is relevant to this case, but it is interesting all the same.
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Are there different lacrosse teams for men and women?
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Are you joking?
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does anyone know if jesse jackson apologized to the duke lacrosse players yet?
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This is an obvious case of domestic violence - dating violence. That part hasn't even ben mentioned.o
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