Authorities in Durham, N.C., say they have arrested the second suspect wanted in the slaying of the University of North Carolina's student body president.

Durham police Lt. Robert McLaughlin Jr. said early Thursday that officers arrested Lawrence Alvin Lovette Jr. at 4:16 a.m. He said the 17-year-old Lovette surrendered to patrol and SWAT officers who had surrounded his home.

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Police also have obtained an arrest warrant for Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr., 17, and have charged him with first-degree murder.

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Police on Wednesday arrested 21-year-old Demario James Atwater of Durham. He later made an initial court appearance on charges of first-degree murder and was ordered held without bond.

Twenty-two-year-old student body president Eve Carson Carson was found last week lying on a street about a mile from campus. The biology and political science major from Athens, Ga., had been shot several times, including once in the right temple.

According to the North Carolina Department of Corrections Web site, both suspects have criminal pasts. Atwater has been convicted of two felonies, including possession of a firearm by a felon, and Lovett was found guilty of misdemeanor breaking and entering and larceny in January.

Thanks in part to two sets of surveillance camera photos released by authorities, police received hundreds of tips from the community. The photos were taken when someone tried to use Carson's ATM card — police say they show Lovett at a drive-up teller machine, and Atwater at a convenience store.

Police made the arrests in the middle of UNC's spring break week. The school will hold a memorial service next week for Carson, 22. The school has established a memorial fund to honor the woman, who attended the school on a prestigious scholarship and earned Phi Beta Kappa.

In Athens, residents are discussing how to best honor the memory of Carson, remembered as an irrepressibly friendly young woman — a "wonderful, wonderful person," in O'Looney's words — who many expected to change the world.

Perhaps the simplest way to remember Carson might also be the best.

O'Looney said those who knew her "want to honor her with the way they live their lives."

Staff writer Ken Sugiura and the Associated Press contributed to this article.