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Auburn freshman from Cobb shot to death
By MIKE MORRIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/05/08
An Auburn University freshman from Cobb County died Tuesday night after being found shot several miles from campus, police and school officials said.
Auburn police responding to a report of an injured female on Alabama Hwy. 147 a few miles north of town found Lauren A. Burk, 18, of Marietta, suffering from a single gunshot wound. She later died at East Alabama Medical Center.
About 20 minutes later, Burk's 2001 Honda Civic was found on fire at the Hinton Field parking lot near a dormitory on campus.
Burk graduated last year from Walton High School in Marietta, said Jim Hardin, director of the Auburn University Office of Judicial Affairs.
Burk was a member of Delta Gamma sorority and did not live on campus, Hardin said.
The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, the Lee County Sheriff's Office and athe Lee County District Attorney's Office were assisting Auburn police in the investigation.
Hardin said police had made no arrests as of early Wednesday afternoon.
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