She was an A+ student and class president whose biology and chemistry textbooks had hundreds of post-it notes reminding her to ask more questions and read something else because there was so much more she couldn't wait to figure out.

She'd sing along with an Outkast song on the radio so badly off-key it hurt people's ears and reminded others how perfectly in-pitch she seemed to do just about everything else.

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Eve Marie Carson

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Police in Chapel Hill released this ATM camera image of a possible suspect.

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Most guys had a crush on Eve Marie Carson. Most girls thought of her as a sister. The world expected the world of Eve Carson.

And on Saturday, as North Carolina investigators announced new clues in her shooting death last week in Chapel Hill — two ATM photographs of a suspect — there was already plenty of evidence the death of Carson, a 22-year-old from Athens, Ga., was a huge loss to her family, friends, and a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus still in shock.

"I've been teaching 26 years, and she's one of a kind in 26 years," said Buddy Sims, her biology teacher at Clarke Central High School in Athens, where Carson graduated in 2004.

"Her more than anyone, I was just so curious what she would do with her life," added Amy Coenen 23, who grew up with Carson and now lives in New York. "I knew it would be great. She could have gone a thousand different, extraordinary directions."

Carson's funeral is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday at Athens First United Methodist Church, and the community is invited.

In Chapel Hill, the mourning began within hours of her death early Wednesday on a street not far from the UNC campus.

Carson was student body president. To the university community, her death felt like an assassination. For three days thousands of students, staff and faculty gathered in impromptu outpourings of grief. The Board of Trustees offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in her death.

On Saturday night at the UNC and Duke basketball game in Durham — amid the hubbub of the teams' huge rivalry — there was to be a moment of silence in her memory.

It's a memory, said friends, that won't be forgotten. Her death is something they couldn't have imagined.

"You didn't ever think you had to worry about Eve," said Lawrence Jones, 20, a University of Georgia sophomore and longtime friend. "She's one of those girls that if you hear stuff about Eve, you know it's going to be good. This blindsided me."

Carson was last seen around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday when she stayed behind at home to study while her roommate went out for the night. There were no signs of forced entry to her residence, nor any evidence she was sexually assaulted or had struggled with her killer. Police found her sports utility vehicle Thursday but have not yet found her keys or wallet.

Investigators said Saturday they hoped circulating ATM images of the suspect — a male in his late teens or early 20s — and a photo of a baseball cap he appears to be wearing would produce fresh leads.

In Athens on Friday, people were just trying to absorb the loss. A handful of students who attended Clarke Central with Carson gathered in the principal's office to remember her.

Principal Maxine Easom talked about Carson turning down a parade of elite private and Ivy league schools where she was accepted, picking UNC instead because it's a state university with a more diverse student body.

If people were in awe of Carson's accomplishments, and it was hard not to be – student class president, National Honors Society president – she was disarming and engaging, with a loud voice, bright smile, an easy laugh and a quick handshake.

"The funniest thing is, everyone envied her, and at the same time, you couldn't envy her," said Cullen Timmons, 19, who grew up with Carson. "You just wanted to be with her. It didn't matter who you were."

On Sunday Athens will grieve for the woman Carson was. But, more painfully perhaps, said her biology teacher Sims, they will grieve for the woman they were certain she would become.

"Eve," he said, "is a person who not only wanted to make a difference in the world, but who would have made a difference in the world."