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George Huguely drank so heavily that friends considered intervention, ex-teammates say
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Graduation from the University of Virginia was within sight and a successful lacrosse season was wrapping up, yet George Huguely V was drinking heavily four times a week, so often and with such intensity that his close friends met to discuss an intervention, former teammates testified Thursday.
He was drunk around them and drunk around their parents. He was drunk in front of his father, on a day-long bender during a father-son golf outing hours before his final argument with Yeardley Love.
The intervention never came.
Huguely was arrested May 3, 2010, days before final exams, and charged with killing Love, who was found dead in her bed by a roommate. Huguely, 24, of Chevy Chase is on trial in Charlottesville, charged with first-degree murder and five other offenses to which he has pleaded not guilty.
Huguely’s lawyers have said he went to Love’s off-campus apartment that night to talk, to patch up the latest in their series of volatile breakups during two years of dating.
During the second day of testimony, a jury with equal numbers of men and women also heard from a student who attended a February 2010 party in Charlottesville at the apartment complex where Huguely lived. The witness testified that he heard a woman yelling “Help me! Help me!” and opened Huguely’s bedroom door to see Huguely with his arm tight around Love’s neck.
