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UVA lacrosse Player charged in murder
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Police have arrested 22-year-old UVA men's lacrosse player George Huguely and charged him with first degree murder in the death of Yeardley Love, a fellow UVA fourth year and a member of the women's lacrosse team. Love was discovered in her apartment at 222 14th Street at around 2:15am by one of her two roommates, who called 911.
Love was a fourth-year University of Virginia student and a standout on the University's Women's Lacrosse Team. Love was a 2006 graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson.
According to news reports, a preliminary investigation reveals that Love suffered visible physical trauma, but the specific cause of her death won't be announced until after an autopsy.
The crime has stunned the university community, which for the past week had been celebrating the men's lacrosse team's ACC Championship victory.
"Uncertainty and not knowing is very difficult," said Sandridge, perhaps thinking of Morgan Harrington, who disappeared after attending a concert at John Paul Jones Arena in October and whose death remains an unsolved crime more than three months after her body was discovered on an Albemarle County farm.
Love and Huguely had been in a relationship, Longo says, however the nature of that relationship and its status as of last night are focal points of the investigation. Longo says he does not believe Huguely has a criminal record and says Love had not sought a restraining order against Huguely— nor had police been called to the apartment for previous domestic disturbances.
The crime has stunned the university community, which for the past week had been celebrating the men's lacrosse team's ACC Championship victory.
"Uncertainty and not knowing is very difficult," said Sandridge, perhaps thinking of Morgan Harrington, who disappeared after attending a concert at John Paul Jones Arena in October and whose death remains an unsolved crime more than three months after her body was discovered on an Albemarle County farm.
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