Univ. of Virginia student Yeardley Love murdered

On Monday Yeardley Love, 22, of Cockeysville, Md., a lacrosse player and senior, was found dead inside her off-campus apartment. Friends and family grieved the death of an all-star college lacrosse player expressed shock over her alleged murder by another athlete inside her apartment at the University of Virginia. The death of the all-star college lacrosse player, Yeardley Love was described as an unspeakable loss. The UVA University of Virginia lacrosse family expresses their sadness and mourns the death and loss of the al-star player Yeardley Love.

The University of Virginia men’s lacrosse player George Huguely, 22, of Chevy Chase, Md., was charged with first-degree murder for the young woman’s death. around 2:15 a.m. Love’s roommate called police to report that Love may have had an alcohol overdose. But in the Police’s arrival Love had visual injuries to her body and it was determined she had already passed away. Love was face-down when authorities arrived and that police were able to see obvious signs of physical injury to her body.

According to police chief Tim Longo, Love was found in bed by a roommate at the apartment she shared with two female friends about three blocks from the UVA campus. Once police found Love, “the obvious physical trauma to her” led them to start a murder investigation, Longo said. Later, Huguely was questioned at his apartment and arrested at about 6 a.m.

In a statement, police said that Love and Huguely had a past relationship but have not released further details about the crime.

According to Longo, Huguely is scheduled to appear via video conference Tuesday morning for a bond hearing in Charlottesville.

Georgetown senior Molly Ford, who played high school lacrosse with Love at Notre Dame Prep, was stunned by the news of her friend’s death. “It was so shocking,” Ford told the Daily News. “I felt like I had talked to her less than a week ago and the fact that I’m never going to get to see her again is really, really hard.”

Although the death is being called a homicide, the exact details of the fatality won’t be made public until an autopsy is complete, said Steve Murman, the regional administrator of the medical examiner’s office in Richmond. According to Murman, Love’s body was delivered to the central district office in Richmond on Monday afternoon. The autopsy will be performed at the medical examiner’s office on Tuesday morning by one of the three forensic pathologists on staff. The results could be made public by 2 p.m. on Tuesday, he said. But if drugs and alcohol are in Love’s system, the results could take longer to emerge.