Mourners have gathered in Eve Marie Carson’s hometown of Athens on Sunday, to remember the brilliant and popular University of North Carolina student body president, who was found dead Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile, Lauren Burk, an Auburn University freshman who was also slain last week near the campus, was mourned in her hometown of Marietta, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta.

“We should not be here this afternoon. It is too soon to be remembering the life of Eve Marie Carson,” senior minister Bill Britt told the mourners, who were wearing blue ribbons in the girl’s honor.

During the service, many people spoke beautifully of Carson, who had been involved in all kinds of generous activities, including volunteering in places such as Ghana, Ecuador and Egypt.

In Marietta, the hometown of the other slain girl, Rabbi Steven Lebow asked the people who had come at the funeral, to put aside their angry feelings and turn the negative energy into a useful one.

"It would be easy to give way to our emotions this afternoon because there is a spectrum of feelings roiling and unsettling our souls," Lebow said, according to The Associated Press. “The right thing isn't vengeance. The right thing is justice,” he added.

Even though the two deaths appear to be similar, investigators said they did not find a link between them. The two colleges are a seven-hour drive apart, so officials do not think the same killer is responsible for both crimes.

Lauren Burk was found near the camp Tuesday, at 9 p.m., with a gunshot wound. She was taken to the hospital, but died in the same night.

At 5 a.m. Wednesday morning, police in North Carolina found the other student, Eve Carson, who had been shot several times, including once in the head.

People who knew the two girls describe them as wonderfully spirited, brilliant and caring for others, and nobody can understand why the tragic crimes took place.