Murder of Yeardley Love

Yeardley Reynolds Love was born on July 17, 1987, in Baltimore, Maryland, to John and Sharon Love.

She resided in Cockeysville, Maryland.

George Wesley Huguely V was born on September 17, 1987, in Washington, D.C., to George Wesley Huguely IV and Marta Sanson Lavarraque, who was first married to Andrew Murphy and whom she subsequently divorced.

Huguely attended the all-boys Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, and resided in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

At Landon, Huguely played football, and was an All-American lacrosse player.

During his senior year at Landon, he was the quarterback of the football team.

At Notre Dame Preparatory School, Love was a member of the varsity lacrosse and field hockey teams all four years, and was an All-County lacrosse player in 2006.

She was admitted to the University of Virginia (UVA), where she majored in political science and minored in Spanish.

She was also a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta.

As a member of the UVA women's lacrosse team, the Cavaliers, Love scored her first goal in her first game, playing against Virginia Tech.

In 2007, Huguely was charged with underage possession of alcohol in Florida, where his family owns a vacation house.

In 2008, he was arrested for public drunkenness and resisting arrest outside the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity house located at Washington and Lee University.

Police tased Huguely to subdue him.

In that incident, he received a suspended sentence of sixty days and six months of probation, was fined, and was ordered to perform community service and participate in a drug treatment program.

He did not disclose this arrest to UVA, despite a requirement to do so.

She started in nine of her sixteen games in 2009, and in three of her fifteen games in 2010.

In 2009, Huguely attacked a teammate after hearing that he had kissed Love.

Before her murder, Huguely sent threatening text messages and emails to Love.

The murder of Yeardley Love took place on May 3, 2010, in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

Love, a University of Virginia (UVA) women's lacrosse student-athlete, was found unresponsive in her Charlottesville apartment, and later that day, UVA men's lacrosse player George Wesley Huguely V was arrested by Charlottesville police.

Huguely was tried and found guilty of Love's murder, receiving a 23-year prison sentence.

During the 2010 season, Huguely was a midfielder for the Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse team.

He majored in anthropology.

Love and Huguely met their freshman year, and were often seen hanging out together with their teammates.

They had been dating for more than two years by the time of spring 2010, just prior to her murder.

It was Huguely's aggressive behavior, triggered by alcohol, that caused their relationship to be on and off.

Around 2:15 a.m. EDT on May 3, 2010, Charlottesville police were called to Love's apartment on 14th Street in the University Corner district.

At the scene, Love was found unresponsive, and was pronounced dead.

The 9-1-1 call from Love's roommate reported that she suffered an alcohol overdose, but detectives noticed "obvious physical injuries to her body" upon arrival.

The suspect, George Huguely, was living next door.

On May 4, Huguely was charged with murdering Love, and was held in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.

At a May 6 court appearance, his attorney, Fran Lawrence, stated: “Ms.

Love's death was not intended, but an accident with a tragic outcome.” Huguely appeared at the hearing via video.

Huguely and Love dated over the course of two years, but had broken up.

At the Charlottesville police station, Huguely waived his Miranda rights, and narrated graphic details of his assaulting Love, stating that he kicked open her locked bedroom door, and “shook Love, and her head repeatedly hit the wall.” Huguely admitted that he took, and intended to destroy, her Apple laptop computer when he fled her apartment.

Evidence that police seized from Huguely's apartment included two Apple laptop computers, a spiral notebook, two white socks, bathroom and entryway rugs, and a Virginia lacrosse shirt with a red stain.

Investigators also followed leads of domestic violence between Huguely and Love, including threatening email and text messages that he sent to her post-breakup; a violent encounter between the couple that was broken up by several visiting lacrosse players from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and an incident in which Huguely attacked Love while drunk, whereafter Huguely claimed he did not recall hitting her.

An unnamed student reported that the couple broke up after the drunken Huguely assaulted Love.

A preliminary hearing for Huguely on a first-degree murder charge was held April 11, 2011, in Charlottesville District Court.

Huguely continued to be held without bond at the Charlottesville jail.