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UVA Shooting: Campus Mourns 3 football players who were mortally wounded



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university of On Tuesday, Virginia canceled classes as it “continues work through emotional stress of Sunday shooting left three of schools football players dead and two others were wounded.

Shooting caused hours-long hunt from Sunday evening to Monday morning. It all ended with the arrest of alleged shooter Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. in Henrico County, about 80 miles east of Charlottesville. Jones faces three charges of second-degree murder and three bills of using pistol in commission of it is a felony, UVA Police Chief Timothy Longo Sr. said on Monday.

The police did not name a motive. for in attack.

Three players who died in the shooting was identified as wide receivers Devin Chandler and Lavel Davis Jr. along with with linebacker D’Shawn Perry, according to the university.

Two other students were also injured, but only one of They – Michael Hollins – were identified. Two injured students are being treated at the UVA Medical Center. with one in critical condition and so on in good Condition, said UVA spokesman Brian Coy, declining name them.

Wave of support – both locally and nationally – merged into Charlottesville after news broke on Monday. According to a photo of the school posted on Twitter, the school held a candlelight vigil on Monday, gathering hundreds of people on campus. football team.

womenbasketball team from competitor Virginia Tech wore #HokiesforHoos T-shirts on Monday.

university of Wisconsinwhere Chandler previously played released a statement saying that their program was “deeply saddened” by the tragic death.

“It’s a hard time for players and staff because of lasting impact Devin has had on his friends and teammates,” the statement said. “Our thoughts go out to his family friends and Virginia football family”.

This was stated by Vice President Kamala Harris. on shooting shortly after cursing in a new Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago on Monday.

“This is a tragedy,” Harris said. “Of course our prayers with families of victims and it just but a constant reminder that we must work better in terms of gun safety laws in our country.”

This was followed by at least 68 shootings. year on US school grounds, including 15 on college campuses, with least one man shot dead in each case, not including the shooter. Deadliest school shooting in modern USA history remains 2007 attack at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg where 23-year-old student killed 32 people before dying by suicide.

Shooting on the Charlottesville campus also one of almost 600 mass executions in USA is the year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which like CNN counts cases in at least four people shot, except for the shooter.

Shooting at UVA took place Sunday when the class was returning from a trip to Washington, DC. The class saw the play, representatives of the university said, and this is not immediately clear if Jones was a part of this class or took a field trip.

The police responded to the message of the shots were fired around 22:30 in en area near the garage on According to university president Jim Ryan, on Culbreath Road and surrounded by academic buildings. There were two dead on the bus. with a third victim was taken to hospital where he died, said Longo, the school’s police chief.

call suggested shelter-in-place a warning that was lifted around 12 hours later, Longo said. over 500 people sheltered in all campus buildings, including in libraries and classes, he said.

Classes at UVA and for Charlottesville city schools were canceled on Monday as result of shooting.

The authorities launched a search for Jones followed attack Sunday. Then, around 11 a.m. ET Monday, a Henrico County police officer noticed vehicle Jones was driving in Oriental area of county where he was “taken into custody without incident”, according to news exemption from the police division.

Christopher Jones was arrested on Monday, November 14, 2022 in connection with shooting at university of Virginia, what left three football players dead.

Jones is listed on Athletics UVA website how football player in 2018 who as a freshman did not participate in Any games. He studied at the Varina Gymnasium and the St. Petersburg Gymnasium, where he played football as linebacker and works back, according to his collegiate athletics biography.

A UVA spokesman told CNN that Jones already had injury what prevented him playing on in football team in 2018. At one time, Jones underwent treatment and rehabilitation. with in team and was only a member of in team for one season, representative says.

The press secretary wouldn’t give Details on Jones injury.

Jones was previously on radar of campus authorities. In September the authorities found out Jones “was made a comment about owning a gun to someone “unaffiliated with university,” Longo said on Monday news conference. But this man never saw gun in question, he said.

“On the way of threat assessment teaminvestigation, we learned of prior criminal an incident involving a breach of a concealed weapon that occurred outside in city of Charlotteville in February of 2021,” Longo said, adding that the suspect required report this incident to the university, but never did so. School Judicial Council took over case, and results are under consideration.

Jones was also involved in hazing investigation on a campus that was closed because witnesses didn’t cooperate, Longo said.

All three victims and one of it was confirmed that two of the injured were UVA football players.

Lavel Davis, Jr., junior from South Carolina, was one of best wide receivers for Virginia Cavaliers this season. As a 6-foot-7 wide receiver, Davis was in team major deep threat, with 16 catches for 371 yards and two touchdowns on in year, good for stellar 23.2 yards per catch.

D’Shawn Perry, junior linebacker, played in fifteen games over in last three seasons. On Saturday against Pittsburgh, he counted two tackles in defeat 37-7. In a statement through his lawyer Michael Haggard Perry parents thanked the communities of South Florida and Charlottesville for in support they got after the shooting.

Devin Chandler, a junior wide and return player, recently moved to UVA this off-season from university. of Wisconsin.

One of the two injured students were identified as Michael Hollins, according to Andrew Martin, head football coach at the University Laboratory School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Hollins is a junior runner. back for UVA, according to teamx roster. CNN reached out to Hollins family but received no reply.

Hollins’ father, Michael Hollins Sr., told The Washington Post about his son was shot in in back with bullet stuck in his stomach. Hollins Sr. told The Post that he is expected to recover.

Hollins was expected to finish in December with degree in entrepreneurship and African American history father Post said.

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