A University of North Carolina student leader from Athens, Ga., Eve Marie Carson, was shot to death early Wednesday, Chapel Hill, N.C., police said Thursday.

Carson, 22, the UNC student body president and a graduate of Clarke Central High School in Athens, was found before dawn at an intersection near campus, police said.

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"At this point what I'm thinking, what it feels like, is a fairly random crime," Chapel Hill police chief Brian Curran said, according to the Raleigh News & Observer. Police are looking for Carson's 2005 blue Toyota Highlander with Georgia license plate AIV 6690, the newspaper reported on its Web site.

Police said they responded to reports of gunshots. Carson suffered multiple gunshot wounds, including at least one in the head, Lt. Kevin Gunter of the Chapel Hill Police Department said, according to the News & Observer. Her body was found with no identification, requiring police to spend Wednesday determining who she was.

As of early Thursday afternoon, police had not made any arrests.

Police said Carson had last been seen alive at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Carson, was the recipient of the school's prestigious Morehead Scholarship and was a pre-med student double majoring in biology and political science.

She participated in leadership and service at UNC and, according to the university, had also been student body president at Clarke Central.

Carson's death came just hours after the shooting death of another Georgia student, Lauren Burk, of Marietta, while attending college out of state. Burk was a freshman at Auburn and was found dying of a gunshot wound along a road a few miles from campus on Tuesday evening.

Because of her position as a student leader at UNC, Carson had a seat on the UNC-Chapel Hill board of trustees.

UNC-CH Chancellor James Moeser, in a statement, called Carson a "wonderful person and great friend."

"We are deeply saddened and numb with grief," he said.

Moeser planned to speak to UNC students and faculty Thursday afternoon at Polk Place in the center of the Chapel Hill campus.