Stephen Oates
DURHAM, N.C. -- A grand jury has indicted a Durham teenager with murdering a Duke University graduate student.
The formal charge against Laurence Lovette, 17, was handed up Monday. The grand jury also indicted Lovette with one count of robbery with a dangerous weapon.
Lovette and Stephen Oates, 19, of Durham are charged in the shooting of 29-year-old Abhijit Mahato. The computational mechanics doctoral student was found dead Jan. 18 inside his apartment a few blocks south of Duke's campus.
Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr.
Oates was indicted last month, and will next appear in court the week of April 4. He also faces charges on 14 courts on robbery with a dangerous weapon and four courts of assault with a deadly weapon.
Lovette was tied to Mahato's death after his arrest last week in the slaying of University of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson. He is charged with murder in Orange County in her death.
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