UVA SHOOTING: Suspect Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. In Custody, Charged With Murder After 3 Killed & 2 Injured + Friends Of Football Players Mourn Reported Deaths

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Three people were killed and two others were injured in a shooting at a parking deck at the University of Virginia last night. Police just captured the suspected shooter, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., who has been confirmed as a student and a former football player at the university. Three of the deceased have been confirmed as UVA football players. Get the latest inside…

A manhunt was underway after a shooting at the University of Virginia left three people dead and injured two others.

UVA police just confirmed the suspect has been captured:

 

 

”UVA UPDATE: Police have the suspect in custody. This is the final alert message,” UVA Police tweeted.

According to reports, Charlottesville police were looking for alleged suspect Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a current UVA student and former UVA football player, who was on the run and was considered armed and dangerous. The shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 13th) in a parking garage on Culbreth Road, behind the school’s Drama building.

 

 

The suspect, 22-year-old Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., is a student at UVA, according to the university. Christopher was listed as a member of the University of Virginia football team in 2018. The suspect was a walk-on on the football team. He graduated from Petersburg High School and previously attended Varina High School before attending UVA.

Christopher excelled academically in high school, earning the title of ‘Student of the Year’ twice at Varina. As a freshman, he was named honorable mention all-conference, and as a sophomore and junior, he was named second team. He was a member of the National Honor Society and the National Technical Honor Society, as well as the president of Key Club and the Jobs for Virginia Grads Program. He has three brothers and sisters.

The shooter has been charged with three counts of second degree murder and three counts of having possession of a weapon.

Around 10:15 p.m., UVA sophomore Em Gunter, 19, was watching a lecture in her dormitory when she heard six gunshots ring out. Em lives at the International Residential College, and she can see Culbreth Road from her window. 

The suspect was last seen wearing a burgundy jacket, blue jeans, and red shoes and driving a black SUV with the Virginia license plate TWX3580.

The school’s President, James E. Ryan, sent out a campus-wide message with updates and said that classes are cancelled today.

UVA was placed on lock down after the shooting, which lasted for 12 hours. This morning (around 10:30AM) UVA Police announced on Twitter that the shelter-in-place order had been lifted “based on a thorough search on and around Grounds.” A substantial police presence will remain.

Students took to social media to share their first hand accounts of being on lock down on campus for the past 12 hours:

So scary.

 

According to police, the shooter killed three current UVA football players: wide receiver Lavel Davis Jr., linebacker D’Sean Perry, and wide receiver Devin Chandler.

 

Friends and faculty are mourning the lost of the three players on social media:

During a press conference, police said the shooting occurred on a bus full of students returning from a field trip. Two of the players were found dead on the bus, while the third player died at the hospital. It’s not clear if the shooter was also on the field trip, or if it was just the players who were, and he walked up on them at the bus.

As for the two people injured, one is in critical condition and the other is in good condition.

Stay locked in as more details are still trickling in.

We send our prayers to the families and friends who have been affected by this unnecessary tragedy right before the holidays.

Photos: UVA Police/Twitter

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