On the day before he was charged with first-degree murder, George Huguely V walked the fairways and greens of Charlottesville's exclusive Farmington Country Club, the Blue Ridge Mountains at his back. 
 
 The University of Virginia men's lacrosse team, ranked best in the nation, had just won the last regular-season game of Huguely's senior year. The 22-year-old and some teammates had gathered at the club with their fathers to celebrate the storybook ending and to look forward to the NCAA tournament. 
 
 Within hours, according to police, Huguely would kick down the bedroom door of his former girlfriend, Yeardley Love, and smash her head repeatedly against a wall. 
 
 On Sunday, while his classmates finish their school careers amid the pomp and pride of a U-Va. graduation ceremony and his teammates play a quarterfinal tournament game, Huguely will remain in the 4-by-8-foot jail cell he has occupied since police found Love facedown in a pool of her own blood on May 3. She was buried five days later. 
 
 The two sides of the George Wesley Huguely who could stroll a manicured golf course in the afternoon and allegedly commit an unfathomable act of fury in the wee hours of the next morning were not unknown to his friends and teammates. Huguely had a mercurial temperament. He was sometimes chivalrous, occasionally savage. He drank prodigiously, and that habit had resulted in previous violence. 
 
 "Every time I see Yeardley's face on a magazine, I want to die. None of us can believe this actually happened. It doesn't click. It doesn't jibe. It doesn't work," said one family friend. "The George we knew wasn't capable of that. There had to be a different George that was inside that head." 
 
 This picture of Huguely and Love, herself a U-Va. lacrosse player, is incomplete because most of those close to them declined to speak to The Washington Post. Neither of their families would speak to reporters. Others asked for anonymity out of respect to the Loves or because the police investigation is continuing. Public records and statements by police and university officials tell only pieces of the story. 
 
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 Huguely was a child of divorce but knew few other deprivations. He spent some of his teenage years in a million-dollar yellow brick home on a 1.5-acre corner lot in Potomac, where a boar's head hung over the fireplace. His round face came from his mother, Marta, a part-time model at Saks Fifth Avenue. 
 
 He was "the most friendly kid I've ever met," someone who "shook your hand and looked you in the eye," said Michael Mullally, a family friend and business associate of Huguely's father. 
 
 Huguely's great-great-grandfather co-founded the Galliher & Huguely lumber yard in Northwest Washington in 1912. The family invested in racehorses and a 1,000-unit apartment complex. Some family members had lifetime memberships at Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase and the Annapolis and Corinthian yacht clubs. 
 
 Before Huguely reached his teens, the Huguely family splintered in an ugly divorce. A legal agreement from 1997 required that George Huguely IV and his ex-wife would speak by telephone every Tuesday at 9 p.m. They could discuss the children -- George and his younger sister, Teran -- only if neither child was in earshot. The parents pledged in court not to criticize each other. 

 The temper of the University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend was on full display in 2008 when the suspect's father called Florida police to the family's luxurious yacht with a domestic abuse complaint. 
 
 When police motored out to the yacht, George Huguely V jumped into the Atlantic Ocean and began swimming to shore, according to the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office. 
 
 The family's 40-foot yacht, named "The Real Deal," was a quarter of a mile off shore from the glamourous Ritz Carlton Hotel, police said. 
 
 The domestic abuse complaint had been filed by the suspect's own father George Huguely IV. 
 
 No arrests were made, and Huguely was picked up by a passing boater without injury. The incident occurred not far from the family's million-dollar estate in the wealthy coastal town of Manalapan, Fla. 
 
 George Huguely's Troubled Past 
 
 Huguely's tumultuous history is emerging in the wake of the brutal murder of Yeardley Love, 22, who was found dead in her Charlottesville apartment early Monday morning. 
 
 Huguely is now facing first degree murder charges in Love's death. 
 
 The university has announced that the star lacrosse player will receive a posthumous degree with the rest of her class. 
 
 Love's uncle, Granville Swope, told ABC News that his niece was a "delightful lady in every respect." 
 
 "She was just wonderful," said Swope, who asked for privacy for Love's grieving mother and older sister. 
 
 At an emotional candlelight vigil Wednesday night students on the pristine campus shared the Love's family loss, sobbing as they listened to the tributes to their teammate. 
 
 University President John T. Casteen III told them to not ignore signs of abuse in their relationships or in the relationships of people they know. 
 
 "Tuck away in your soul the knowledge that neither Yeardley Love nor any woman attacked ever deserved it," Casteen said. 
 
 At a news conference earlier in the day, Casteen said Love would receive her degree posthumously with the rest of her class later this month. 
 
 Love's funeral is scheduled for Saturday. 
 
 Lacrosse Suspect Once Tasered By Female Officer 
 
 Her ex-boyfriend, varsity men's lacrosse player Huguely, also 22, has been charged in her murder. Though Huguely was by all outward appearances a star all-American athlete, troubling past incidences of violence and alcohol abuse continue to bubble up as police press their investigation. 
 
 Lexington, Va., Police Officer Rebecca Moss wound up on the ground, wrestling with Huguely during an arrest in 2008 that ended with a conviction for public intoxication and resisting arrest. 
 
 "We did end up on the ground at one point," she said. "I kept telling him stop resisting, he needed to comply with my orders." 
 
 Moss said she was forced to use a Taser on the 6'2" and 209 pound Huguely after he hurled racial and sexual obscenities at her and threatened her life, telling the officer, "I'll kill you. I'll kill all of y'all. I'm not going to jail." 
 
 A Rockbridge, Va., courthouse clerk told ABC News that Huguely was charged with public intoxication, resisting arrest and public swearing. He received 60-day suspended sentence, six months probation, a $100 fine and was required to complete 50 hours of community service and attend substance abuse counseling. According to the clerk, Huguely completed all of these requirements.
– Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia will graduate thousands of students this morning—the culmination of years of study. But accused murderer George Huguely will sit in his jail cell rather than collect his diploma—the culmination of years of privilege and inexplicable rage, reports the Washington Post in an extensive look at the man in the mugshot. Other than his parents' divorce, Huguely's charmed life roamed from yachts to tony vacation homes: He was playing golf with lacrosse teammates at a swank country club just hours before he is accused of fatally slamming Yeardley Love's head into a wall. But he was also drinking, which seemed to trigger his inner rage. Friends' can't reconcile the two sides. "The George we knew wasn't capable of that," says one. "There had to be a different George that was inside that head."