Heartbroken mourners searched soul and scripture Sunday to understand why someone would fatally shoot a popular University of North Carolina student body president and cut short a life with such promise.
For the hundreds gathered at Athens First United Methodist Church, Eve Carson should still be in school, studying political science and biology, teaching science to grade schoolers or planning her next trip abroad.
"We should not be here this afternoon," senior minister Bill Britt said, angry that the 22-year-old was not instead celebrating spring break or watching the mighty Tar Heels play basketball.
"It is too soon to be remembering the life of Eve Marie Carson," he told the mourners who gathered here in her hometown. Some came down from the university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Many wore Carolina blue ribbons in her honor.
During the nearly two-hour service, there were just as many references to her beauty, intelligence and leadership as to her kindness, dedication to service and concern for others.
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