Natalie Keepers, 19, has been arrested and charged with improper disposal of a body and accessory after the fact in the commission of a felony

Second Virginia Tech Student Charged in Alleged Abduction and Murder of 13-Year-Old Girl Found Dead on Roadside

Virginia police have arrested a second Virginia Tech student in connection with the death of a teenage girl who went missing from her home last week, PEOPLE confirms.

Blacksburg police arrested Natalie Keepers, a sophomore engineering student, for allegedly helping to dispose of 13-year-old Nicole Madison Lovell’s body after she was killed, according to a police statement obtained by PEOPLE.

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Keepers, 19, is charged with one felony count of improper disposal of a dead body and one misdemeanor count of accessory after the fact in the commission of a felony.

One day earlier, police arrested 18-year-old David Eisenhauer and charged him with felony counts of first-degree murder and abduction in the case.

Eisenhauer’s arrest followed a frantic four-day search by authorities for Lovell after the girl vanished from her Blacksburg home Wednesday. On Saturday, Virginia State Police found Lovell’s body in Surrey County, North Carolina, along Route 89, nearly 100 miles from her home, according to the statement.

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Investigators have determined that Eisenhauer and Lovell knew each other before her disappearance.

“Eisenhauer used this relationship to his advantage to abduct the 13-year-old and then kill her,” police alleged. “Keepers helped Eisenhauer dispose of Nicole’s body.”

Both Eisenhauer and Keepers are being held at Montgomery County Jail without bail. It is unclear whether they have entered a plea or have attorneys.

Lovell’s uncle told The Roanoke Times that the teen likely climbed out a window, the family noted that they found a dresser pushed up against the girl’s bedroom door.

Following Eisenhauer’s arrest, police described Lovell’s case as “an extremely fast investigation,” according to a police statement obtained by PEOPLE.

“And we still have a great deal to do as there are multiple interviews to conduct and evidence to [be] collected and analyzed as we reconstruct the timeline of events leading up to Nicole’s tragic death,” police said.