UVA Lacrosse Teammate Arrested For Murder of UVA Woman
Charlottesville, VA– Following a 2:15 am 911 call regarding a possible alcohol overdose, Charlottesville Police have arrested a UVA lacrosse player, formerly of The Landon School Team where1 of the falsely accused Duke Lacrosse team played in High School and 4 others were on the Duke roster.
George Huguely, from Chevy Chase, MD, has been arrested and charged with the first degree murder of fellow Lacrosse Player and UVA senior Yeardley Reynolds Love.
A source speaking on the condition of anonymity, has confirmed to blinkoncrime.com that Huguely is a member of the UVA Fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Love, a 22 year old Senior at UVA, was found by EMT and Charlottesville Police upon responding to a 911 call at the apartment she shared with team and room mate Kaitlinn Duff. It is not yet known if the call was made from the apartment or another location.
The apartment they shared at 14th NW is one block from where the Pantera shirt, confirmed to be that of murder victim Morgan Harrington, was found in November 2009.
Police have not yet released a cause of death for Ms. Love, but say her body showed signs of physical trauma.
Huguely has been committed to the Albemarle County Jail without bond pending his arraignment.
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Yes, Huguely’s attorney intimating it was a trajic accident. Rage and anger have been on my mind…my daughter has been engaged for six months after a bad divorce that was all her doing….we adored our son in law, but alas, it was not meant to be even with three gorgeous kids involved…..she got into this relationship with the new guy too quickly…..she only once mentioned anger….the night he threw all of the kids car seats out of his vehicle…..only met him a couple of times but the eyes told me something….churchgoing, saying all the right things, but then ranting on me because I still had my son in law listed as my child on facebook….I knew something was not right…then last Sunday she broke down….told me everything….and broke it off with the guy….he has gone ballistic over it…I am scared for her and kids….she is an er nurse….pulled a twelve hour last night and came here to sleep until she goes back tonight…it was closer than going to her home in another town and the kids are with their dad. I just went in to check on her…made me cry..she looked so peaceful and like the little girl I raised…not the person who she turned into during a state of mania….treated her husband horribly and the kids have seen and heard too much. Anyone of you out there who have been the victim of anger or rage…get out now. Do not risk being another statistic. An angry person big enough to overcome someone of lesser size is just like a gun….if the trigger goes off it is too late….one cannot go back and change it….again….get out now. If he loves you he will get help. Alcohol and drugs possibly steroid use exacerbate the rage…so if you are in a relationship like this….please get away and seek help.
Did I ever think my daughter with the perfect husband, three kids, new house, very active in church would ruin her marriage, make the kids pawns and get involved with a man like this??? Never….but it has come to pass. My favorite show DWTS came on last night, my husband was not home and my front door is all leaded glass…I was afraid to even sit in my own living room because this guy knows where I live….people with anger issues compounded by drug usage can be violent….even people who on the surface are normal, middle class people…..not gang related….seemingly ones who have it all…can be violent in certain situations…so one cannot say…this doesn’t happen to people like me….well anger problems have no social class to define them…..Did I ever think that any member of my family would be a victim….never. I always shudder when I read about a victim of shaken baby syndrome…same thing….rage, angry…attack an innocent victim…a baby that cries because it needs something….food, changed diaper, or it has a tummy ache….but the caretaker…cannot take it crying anymore so he lashes out by shaking the baby….then it is too late….he cannot go back and take away a few moments of violence that ended a life…so,, so sad. Do not let this happen to any of you….get out now. Sorry rambling..but this is all very very sad for both of these young people and their families.
Two potentially good members of society in the prime of their lives…now lost. Thank God my daughter got out of this….but it broke my heart for my two year old grandbaby to say, “……. hit mommy!”
Don’t know; IF it was an “accident” of some kind or he went further than he intended, he may have panicked and run. Doesn’t sound like he tried to leave town or anything.
Not defending him–just trying to keep an open mind. Very strange “accidents” do happen, especially when alcohol, drugs, steroids, abuse and/or lust set the stage.
One of my advisees (a senior) accidentally died of auto-erotic-asphyxiation. The police initially tried to keep that out of the press, but it was a little difficult to explain “accidentally killed himself.” The family eventually released the information in the interest of other students.
After a little research, I see that the rough sex defense is actually successful sometimes at getting lighter sentences for the defendant. Most legal scholars view it as a permutation of the “she was asking for it” defense. Have we really only come this far?
Blink, you have left me without words. You are an amazing woman whose strength and integrity have clearly inspired and strengthened others. Such a gift is not in vain. Love and blessings.
Thank you friend, I did nothing. I was lucky to be touched by a little girl who I will miss all of days, the beacon is her. I had nothing to do with it.
B
Lizzi, I appreciate your comments regarding the protection of women. If you are referring to the FBI Uniform Crime Report for your information regarding murder rates, then you are accepting information from a flawed reporting system. That report is so confusing that most LE agencies have a difficult time completing it. Therefore, I don’t trust it.
Yes, you are quite correct in that few women attack and kill other women and most of the time it is men.
Our current culture is so lax in making people responsible for their acts. This begins at an early age in the home. Parents do not make their children have real consequences for their bad acts. Without those consequences, young people come to believe that they will not be punished for anything that they do.
Teenagers and young twenty somethings in our current culture are not mature enough to take care of themselves.
Our society has in the past fifty years removed the barriers to young women taking on activities that formally they were not allowed to do. This is progress and the country is better off because of it. However, we have not taught our young men that women are not to be attacked when the men do not get their way. You and others are quite correct when you point that out.
When I was a teenager, boys who picked on girls or said ugly things about them were taken out side by guys who had better value systems and told that they would stop that behavior or they would suffer the consequences of having the living daylights beaten out of them. This was usually sufficient to stop most of that behavior. Sometimes it was necessary to follow through on the threat, but not often.
I have a special reason for protecting women for I am a twin and my twin is a woman. Any man that is mistreating a woman within my sight is going to be stopped if it is within my power.
Yes, even though I am in my mid seventies, I can still pick up and object that weighs over a hundred pounds and walk away with it. I am not the least bit afraid of confronting a bad actor amd I have done that many times.
Now I see that the lawyer for the punk killer is saying that it was an accident. That is an out right lie and the lawyer ought to have his mouth washed with soap. If it was an accident, why didn’t the punk go for help as soon as it happened? I think the real motive was she had moved on and he had his little feelings ruffeled and he was going to make her pay for doing that to him.
The fact that she was drunk and couldn’t defend herself possibly contributed to her death.
Some more details of YL’s death emerge- looks like he’s admitted to having shaken her and her head hitting the wall… Just tragic.
http://www.nbc12.com/Global/story.asp?S=12423679
http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/crime/article/affidavit_lacrosse_player_admitted_to_physical_confrontation_with_slain_wom/55738/
From the Daily Progress:
“during an argument with Yeardley Love, he “shook Love and her head repeatedly hit the wall,” according to an affidavit requesting a search warrant.”
“Affidavits requesting search warrants described witnesses finding Love face down on her pillow in her bedroom. Her right eye was swollen shut, there was a pool of blood on the pillow, and her face was bruised, according to the affidavits. The door to the room had been forced open and had a hole in it, according to the documents.”
Some accident. Sounds like someone had plenty of anger issues.
link to the police affidavits fi in the case — just terrible
they are in the “related links” section
http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/crime/article/affidavit_lacrosse_player_admitted_to_physical_confrontation_with_slain_wom/55738/
How can you accidentially do this??? Snipped from article
http://www.wqad.com/news/wtvr-uva-student-death-story,0,3496640.story
A search warrant obtained Tuesday details the condition in which police and Yeardley’s roommate found her body. The report says her roommate found her face down in her pillow in her bedroom. There was a pool of blood on the pillow, a large bruise on the right side of her face, and she also had bruises and scrapes on her chin.
Police spoke with Huguely who admitted that he was involved in an altercation with Yeardley and that during the course of that altercation, he shook her and her head repeatedly hit a wall.
Huguely’s attorney Francis Lawrence appeared in court with his client Tuesday morning in Charlottesville.
He had the clarity to steal her laptop and attempt to dispose of it, so how will that factor?
B
Here we go again Blink. I can see it coming already IDD (Intention Defecit Disorder). “I didn’t kill her, trust me.”
I am so sorry for this family.
Roid Rage-
This kid pummelled this girl. Sick.
B
“formerly of The Landon School Team where 1 of the falsely accused Duke Lacrosse team played in High School and 4 others were on the Duke roster.”
Totally irrelevant. The Duke players were victims of a crime (false accusations).
@ In Memory of Gini May 4, 2010 at 9:06 am
“3 – I was also wondering how does the RSO issue work for students? Are they required to be registered in Charlottesville if they go to school here? Does their underage record follow them to a University like UVA? ”
*****
While I do not know it for a fact, I seriously doubt a RSO would be allowed admittance into UVA.
http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/04/huguely-admissions-murder-suspect-allegedly-says-he-kicked-through-door-shook-love/
This is what this animal admitted to doing. Thank God he said it all after he was read his Maranda rights!
The affidavit notes that officers found the about-to-graduate young woman with chin scrapes, a large facial bruise, and an eye swollen shut— as she lay in a pool of blood on the pillow. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Later, when Charlottesville Police detective Lisa Reeves spoke to Huguely, he allegedly admitted that he was involved in “an altercation” with his former girlfriend Love, and he proceeded to drop the following bombshells:
– that he “shook Love and her head repeatedly hit the wall.”
– that he “kicked his right foot through the door that leads to Love’s bedroom.”
– that he “communicated with Love by email” and then “took Love’s computer from the residence and disposed of it.”
According to the affidavit, all these admissions came after Huguely waived his Miranda rights, the standard warning that anything he says can and will be used against him in a court of law.
I found juliemooly’s pics..sorry to bother you
wow…foxnews reporting a pretty violent scene, including head banging on the wall and violent shaking…sounds accidental(overt sarcasm)?!?
Concerned Mom, to your: “BS. IF it was an “accident” he would not have left her there. He would have called 911. Disgraceful,” all I can say is AMEN and HALLELUJA.
Houston Mom, I am replying to you over here since everyone seems to have left the old thread to come over here. I agree with you that Morgan’s friends portray, or at least portrayed, themselves as thinking Morgan’s disappearance was a joke. Are they all just really immature? Man, I was the definition of immature when I was in college, but I at least had enough of a sense of social decorum whipped into me by my Southern Baptist-raised mother to ACT like I had some manners. I put some more pictures in the Friends album in my photobucket to illustrate my point. http://s1030.photobucket.com/albums/y361/juliemooly_2010_2/Friends/ Maybe I need to just let it go.
I told you all I would go to the Copley Road Bridge and take photographs of the memorial today, and I will try to get there and post the pictures this evening. It is so nice to see everyone’s beautiful rocks. I haven’t redone my Morgan Rocks banner; I am having printer issues, but I want to redo it and hang it up again.
J
http://www.newsplex.com/localheadlines/headlines/92781604.html
May 4, 2010
The search warrant in the murder case involving two University of Virginia students and lacrosse players describes a gruesome scene at the victim’s apartment.
Fourth-year student Yeardley Love was found by her roommates face down on her bed, with a bruised chin, in a pool of blood, according to an affidavit. One of her eyes was swollen shut.
The document indicates defendant George Huguely told police he swung Love by her neck and then slammed her head against the wall. Huguely’s lawyer told reporters Tuesday that the death was “not intended.”
Police have said Huguely and Love had a romantic relationship at one point, but investigators don’t know the status of that relationship when Love died. The warrant indicates Huguely kicked in the door to Love’s bedroom in the apartment on 14th Street NW in Charlottesville that she shared with two other roommates.
The document also indicates Huguely took her computer and then later told police about it and lead them to its location.
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Blink, do you think this will actually go to trial and if so, do you think it will go to trial here in Charlottesville?
Geezzzz I wonder what would have happened if it he “had intended” to kill her. I am numb from the violence and the shocking brutality. This poor girl, and poor Morgan and the hundreds of thousands like them whose lives are taken with absolutely no regard.
What does the mother of this boy say? What does the father do? How do you look your son in the eye after hearing what he has done?
How can they defend their son from his behavior with this tremendous brutality and disregard for life!!!!
Since when is physical assault and abuse considered an accident? Makes you wonder why a young woman who seemed to possess a strong sense of self and esteem left this douchebag in the first place.
Talk about self entitlement….and a tragic accident? My fat astrobular!
Forced entry, pool of blood and an eye swollen shut. Throw away the key.
Blink, the photos of GH don’t portray someone who is on roids. Is there confirmation he was using HGH?
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I have only seen him from the neck up.
N
Did anyone hear him kicking a hole through her bedroom door and beating her head against the wall? She didn’t die instantly if her eye had a chance to swell shut, I’m sorry to say.
ok, just to clarify…HGH is not a steroid, therefore its use does not come with the potential mood shifting side effects…
but to be fair, i think your question is a good one pertaining to traditional steroids…
The neck tends to look ‘thick’ and distored. GH’s looks ‘average’ to me, imo.
http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000pP91z6YY3ek/t/200
(wears #11, no?) He’s certainly not bulky. I’m wondering if roids is a factor….can it be confirmed?
I have a three year old daughter. She is the shiniest person I’ve ever met. I just enrolled her in kids’ karate.
Yep. You have to.
B
Blink, when I saw the size of his neck, and now hear about his unbelievable anger towards this poor girl, “roid rage” was my first thought.
Ragdoll, look at the size of his neck…that is one of the more obvious signs of steroid abuse….extreme angry outbursts would be another…just sayin’.
If anyone wants to join me in a stomach-turning moment of The Chills, here’s a copy of the search-warrant affadvit in regard to Hugueley(who apparently had injuries on his leg consistent with kicking open Love’s bedroom door):
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2010/05/04/love-died-after-physical-confrontation-affidavit-shows/
… This brute is toast, of the burnt variety.
Also. B, I am sorry for the loss you are feeling today, losing someone you love is so incredibly painful, and even though there are days when it’s not so bad, there are NEVER days that your loved one isn’t on your mind and in your heart.
True and True.
Thank you friend.
B
OK, my trying-to-keep-an-open-mind period is over. Thanks for bearing with me while I gave Huguely an hour.
TX Grandfather, I think I’ll feel safer on my June visit to Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, just knowing you’re somewhere in the state.
Bless you for that.
Also, how did he get into the apartment building? Most apartments buildings are locked and accessible to key holders UNLESS you are buzzed in by a tenant.
Who let GH in?
He claims it was unlocked.
B
Considering the charge, in conjunction with Huguely’s alleged post-assault grab-and-dump of Love’s computer, I think we can assume that whatever email was exchanged between the two makes the case for malice aforethought – which is a required element to prove first-degree murder.
This dude obviously stormed into her apartment late Sunday night and violently kicked through her bedroom door with the conscious, malicious intention of doing Love great bodily harm – ‘roid rage or not.
B, redly, et al -
Is it common for a defense attorney to release his client’s line of defense the day after he is charged? That was really shocking to me. (But not more so than the seemingly proposed defense – “accidental” usually does not fly when a person is facing prosecution for premeditated murder…)
Not when he delays the bond hearing to discuss a plea, and he knows it is as bad as it can get.
I am guessing he will meet meeting with the family and George.
There is zero doubt in my mind this kid has no idea what is coming, if he even remembers what he did.
B
http://sex-offender.vsp.virginia.gov/sor/offenderDetails.html?regId=13228
Yes, there is a sex offender working at UVa. He works at Halsey Hall and Alderman Library. He is violent. He was convicted in Kansas. Either UVa Human Resources doesn’t run background checks, or he lied to the VA State Police about his job status. It could also be that he never disclosed his Kansas residency on his job app and the University only ran a check on him in the states he reported living in.
Houston Mom: Thanks, and the pictures need to be seen. I know, just putting my immature self in their shoes, I would have pure fear in the pit of my stomach, even if it were not a close friend. Especially after two weeks and she has not been found, her purse at the lot, and her Father’s fear. Remember, AM just left the apt. with Morgan. She knew there was no ‘running away’. I think where ever the ‘hhiking’ and ‘left her repressive family’ came from, is a big clue. Look how it obstructed the investigation for such a long time. Also, I with “in Memory of Gini” on the murder of Love! (sorry, I don’t know how to do paragraphs)
Resisting arrest I understand. But I am wondering what he must have done to be on probation for public swearing and intoxication.
Why is so much released about this case and so little released in the Harrington case?
QUOTE:
Huguely attended the Landon School, a private school in Bethesda, Md.
He pleaded guilty last year to two charges—resisting arrest and public swearing and intoxication—in Rockbridge County, about 55 miles southwest of Charlottesville, according to court records. He paid a $100 fine and about $80 in court costs and was released on supervised probation with a 60-day suspended jail sentence.
UNQUOTE
http://tinyurl.com/2beh6ka
IMHO, I’d say GH was intoxicated.
#21 Slow Roller
HGH can be used as a performance enhancer. I’m not identifying it as a steroid.
OOOPPPPSS….I hit submit too fast.
Slow roller, HGH can induce episodes of rage depending on the duration of usage. I am acquainted with someone who used HGH as an amateur athlete. I know there are myths and controversy surrounding the side effects of HGH but it’s usage is not uncommon for the wrong reasons.
I appreciate your response SR
Oh my, how utterly unacceptable. My prayers are with her family, what a tragic example of domestic violence.
I grew up with a step-father who was abusive. My mother frequently landed in the hospital, he tried to strangle my grandma, held a gun to my mother’s head and fired it in the house. I remember hiding in the basement, under the stairs with our dog because he suddenly wanted to kill the dog one time. But when he was nice, he was very, very nice.
I have taught my boys to NEVER it a woman, taught my daughter that it is NEVER acceptable for a boy to hit her. Poor Yeardley, she probably found out what type of monster he was but once he saw her as “his” it was too late.
osu-
I hope everyone reads your post, omg it is so important.
What was your dogs name?
I am so sorry you ever had to hide in your home.
B
Is it true that Lax players found Ms Harringtons purse?
What a horrific death this animal gave that poor girl.
Will be interesting to hear the motive behind that cowardly act and why he stole her laptop…..
What does it say to everyone that this kid, seemingly smart, privileged, and wise to the system (having watched his teammates who went on to be defendants in the Duke case), offered up so much detail to LE post waiving Miranda rights?
You got that right.
I hope like hell they did not breathalize or test his blood before they took that statement.
B
Wow. This is interesting…
• there was a lacrosse connection (as a group of UVA men’s lacrosse players reportedly discovered Morgan’s purse on their way to practice the morning following her disappearance.
from the latest Hook article
http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/04/harrington-yeardley-connected-by-location-outrage/
The Chevy Chase lacrosse star has had a previous run-in with the law. In an interview Tuesday, Lexington police Patrolwoman R.L. Moff said she responded to a 911 call in 2008 and found Huguely stumbling into traffic. He told her he was visiting some friends at a frat party. She asked if anyone could come pick him up so that he could avoid going to jail, according to Moff.
“He said: ‘I’ll kill you. I’ll kill all of y’all. I’m not going to jail,’ ” Moff recalled Huguely saying, in a diatribe laced with racial, sexual and otherwise vulgar terms.
Moff said Huguely then became combative and fought with her for “three or four minutes.” She said she Tasered him, then placed him in handcuffs. The Taser “incapacitated him long enough for me to get cuffs on him,” Moff said. “But that just pissed him off even more. He became a lot more aggressive.”
Moff said Huguely continued to use expletives as she walked him to her patrol car. In court that night, she said, he did not recall he had been Tasered.
Huguely pleaded guilty to resisting arrest and public swearing/intoxication. He received a 60-day suspended sentence, six months supervised probation, a fine, and was ordered to complete 50 hours of community service and substance abuse screening. According to a Rockbridge County court clerk, he completed all of the requirements.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/04/AR2010050402215.html
http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/04/harrington-yeardley-connected-by-location-outrage/
there was a lacrosse connection (as a group of UVA men’s lacrosse players reportedly discovered Morgan’s purse on their way to practice the morning following her disappearance.
I so did not think that would come out.
I will hand it to Courtney, even I would not have published that without a source.
B
What to write, what to say. Once again privileged children raised in my old home turf. At least this boy-man now knows what the end result of his actions will be,loss of freedom,loss of respect and his actions caused loss of life. He will live with the decision to physically abuse his girlfriend with the rest of his life.
So much ambition and hope, swallowed in a minutes rage. Sorry for both the families. No one hopes this for their daughter, nor their son. Teaching boys in todays society not to hit, not to hurt, not to damage is hard. But well worth the effort..from a Mom with a son who knows she will not support him in any endeavor if violence with a woman takes place.
Prayers to all the families and their friends. Young people need to know from physical anger comes violence..violence does not solve the situation..it implodes on itself.
My husband just told me about nearly being choked by a UVA Mens Lacrosse asst coach back in the 1990s at the Biltmore. Hubby defended a female student the asst coach was making fun of, and asst coach went straight for my husband’s neck. Other dudes broke it up, thank God, but hubby was told by other LAX players that he would be “jumped” later that night.
I had no idea until tonight.
The guy is no longer a member of the UVA mens LAX coaching staff (I just showed him their pics) … but what is the culture?
Oh forgot to mention the shout out to Teas Grandfather. Yes, I was in college in the late 60′s early 70′s. And their was a decorum that was expected on campus and in campus affiliated apartments {meaning they refereed you there if there wasn’t dorm space} as well as fraternity /sorority houses.
The notion was legal for colleges that used it ..loca par-antis. Meaning while you are staying on their campus..you are their parents and abide by their rules. Most colleges had this intact at that time. Pain though we all thought it was..even during the love in area..it gave the colleges something to consider safety wise for all their students. Maybe that idea of the college being the parent in resident needs to be reinstilled..for the students sake.
He should have been kicked off the team in 2008. He threatened the cops when he resisted arrest and was drunk. This was announced on Jane”s show. My neighbors son was kicked off soccer team so I heard for drinking and cussing.
The mother and stepfather came out of the courthouse smiling. Makes me sick.
Blink: “He was on probation for a separate incident.”
I can’t find any mention of this; what was the incident?
Thanks,
)
M. (the original M. – someone else is also using my initial
resisting arrest and drunken swearing or some crud-
I am A N G R Y.
B
i still dont think the lacrosse team had anything to do with MH, but the fact a group of them found the purse the morning after is just surreal. very very strange that they cases get connected 7 months later. beyond interesting.