University of Virginia student charged with killing fellow student

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Police in Charlottesville, Va. have arrested and charged George Huguely, 22, a University of Virginia student from Chevy Chase, Md., with the murder of Yeardley Love, 22, also a UVA student, from Cockeysville, Md.

A little after 2:00 a.m., Monday, Love’s roommate called 911, thinking the young lady was suffering from alcohol poisoning, after she found her unresponsive. However, when police arrived she had already expired, and they quickly determined the death to be a homicide.

While they have not released the specific cause of death, Charlottesville police said Love “suffered visible physical trauma.”

Both Huguely and Love played on the school’s lacrosse teams, both were seniors, and according to Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo, the two had once been in a relationship.

Huguely, charged with first-degree murder, is being held in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail

University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III issued the following statement on Love’s 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, teammates and friends. 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. We mourn her death and feel anger on reading that the investigators believe that another student caused it.”

 

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