Prosecutor: Virginia Girl Died Of Stabbing Day She Vanished

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WJZ) -- Two Virginia Tech students from Maryland remain behind bars in a murder mystery puzzling investigators. Now the victim's mother is speaking out.

Investigator Mike Hellgren has more on what she said Tuesday.

"Nicole touched many people throughout her short life," said her mother, Tammy Weeks. "Yeah, I can't do that part."

Weeks' heart is broken. Speaking publicly for the first time, she was so shaken over hte death of her 13-year-old daughter, Nicole Lovell, she couldn't even finish talking.

"Our hearts still ache in sadness and secret tears still flow. What it meant to lose you, no one will ever know," a spokesman continued for her.

Police have charged two teenagers from Howard County, both freshmen at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg where the young victim lived.

Investigators reveal they believe David Eisenhauer, a standout athlete from Columbia, stabbed Lovell and now say his friend, Nicole Keepers, had a bigger role than first through and that she didn't just dispose of the body; they believe she was involved from the start.

"Natalie Keepers, 19, from Laurel...and Blacksburg...will be charged with being an accessory before the fact to the first degree murder of Nicole Lovell," said Mary Pettitt, commonwealth attorney from Montgomery County in Virginia.

The prosecutor now says Nicole Lovell was murdered the day she disappeared from her home last Wednesday and they're still piecing together a timeline of her killers' movements.

Both Eisenhauer and Keepers remain behind bars. They each have lawyers but have entered no pleas.

"We're not alone in this community of our suffering through horrific events. We will not let this violence define us," said Blacksburg Police Chief Anthony Wilson.

Nicole was active online, including using an app called Kik, a favorite of predators because it's hard to track. One question authorities did not answer Tuesday: how Eisenhauer and Keepers connected with the victim and why it all ended with her death.

The question haunts her great-grandmother.

"I can't believe that boy would kill that innocent, sweet little girl," said Annie Reynolds.

Keepers will be arraigned on the new charge Wednesday afternoon.