When police were called to a Charlottesville, Va., apartment at 2:15 a.m. Monday, they expected to find a possible alcohol overdose. Instead, they found an unresponsive 22-year-old University of Virginia women's lacrosse player whose body showed signs of physical trauma, and have now charged a member of the men's team with first-degree murder.
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Police said Monday that fourth-year Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely has been charged in the death of Yeardley Love of Cockeysville, Md., who was also a fourth-year student at the school. Huguely, 22, of Chevy Chase, Md., is in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, according to a statement from police.
According to police chief Tim Longo, Love was found in bed by a roommate at the apartment Love shared with two female friends about three blocks from the UVA campus. Once police found Love, “the obvious physical trauma to her” let them to start a murder investigation, Love said. Huguely was then found at his apartment, questioned and arrested by about 6 a.m., Longo said.
