Information surrounding the murder of Yeardley Love, 22, a fourth-year student and member of the University of Virginia’s women’s lacrosse team, has been slowly released as media sources have sought to have sealed documents opened.
Ms. Love’s former boyfriend, George Huguely V, 22, a member of the UVa. men’s lacrosse team, was charged with her death in May and has been confined in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail the past three months awaiting his October 7th hearing.
The latest information released by police provides some background information leading up to the murder. From the Washington Examiner:
According to search-warrant affidavits released late Tuesday, police have fragments of an e-mail they believe Love sent to Huguely relating to a fight between the two. The e-mail fragments were extracted from the memory of Love’s laptop computer, which was recovered from a trash bin where Huguely told police he had dumped it.
Charlottesville police detective Lisa T. Reeves wrote in the affidavit that the e-mail “is evidence of a prior incident between Huguely and Love.” At the prosecutor’s request, the text of the e-mail was blacked out on the copy of the affidavit that was made public.
As gruesome the detail allegations emerged after the May court hearing in Charlottesville, friends were speaking up about the young lady who was found dead and the young man from a prominent D.C. area family who had been charged with her murder.
Ms. Love attended Notre Dame Preparatory School and played varsity lacrosse and field hockey before entering UVa. She was described by friends and coaches as an angel, someone full of laughter and whose personality was a big part of the teams she played on both in high school and college.
The savagery of the case became national news as the photos of the two attractive students, scheduled to graduate from the University of Virginia three weeks after the killing, graced many media publications for weeks.
It was discovered that Huguely had a 2008 drunken encounter with a Lexington police officer while visiting Washington and Lee University as well as other violent incidences.
UVA officials were unaware of the arrest, something that led them to implement a new policy requiring all students to reveal any arrests or criminal convictions while attending the university. If Huguely’s arrest had been known, he could have been suspended or expelled under the new policy.
