Georgia ? Heartbroken mourners searched soul and Scripture Sunday to understand why someone would fatally shoot a popular University of North Carolina student body president and cut short a life with such promise.

For the hundreds gathered at Athens First United Methodist Church in Georgia, Eve Carson should still be at school, studying political science and biology, teaching science to grade schoolers and planning her next trip abroad.

Carson was found Wednesday morning lying on a street about a mile from campus. She had been shot several times, including once in the right temple. Police are searching for a man photographed using her ATM card.