After players' deaths, UVA cancels home finale

Virginia has canceled its crippled against Coastal Carolina connected Saturday aft the shooting deaths of players Lavel Davis Jr., D'Sean Perry and Devin Chandler, the schoolhouse announced Wednesday.

No determination has been made connected the play finale against Virginia Tech connected Nov. 26 successful Blacksburg.

Davis, Perry, Chandler, moving backmost Mike Hollins and different pupil were changeable Sunday nighttime aft returning to field from a people tract trip. Hollins survived but remains hospitalized aft being changeable successful the back. The different pupil who survived is considered to beryllium successful bully condition.

The suspected shooter is erstwhile Virginia shot subordinate Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., who was arrested by constabulary Monday. Jones, 22, was denied enslaved during a tribunal proceeding Wednesday.

Jones faces 3 counts of second-degree murder, 2 counts of malicious wounding and further gun-related charges.

In a quality league Tuesday, Virginia diversion manager Carla Williams said her section would consult with manager Tony Elliott and the squad astir playing Saturday's game.

"Obviously, they're going done a lot, and we privation to marque definite they're progressive arsenic well. We'll usage our champion judgment," Williams said.

Coastal Carolina expressed enactment for the determination to cancel the game.

"As overmuch arsenic we emotion gameday and the tone it brings, determination is simply a clip erstwhile the sanctity of beingness and sustaining of a assemblage instrumentality precedence. This is 1 of those times," Matt Hogue, Coastal Carolina's vice president for intercollegiate athletics, said successful a statement. "We afloat enactment the determination and volition proceed offering our assistance and lend nevertheless we tin toward the healing of our friends and colleagues astatine UVA."

Classes astatine Virginia resumed Wednesday, and a campuswide lawsuit honoring the victims was successful the works.

ESPN's Mark Schlabach and The Associated Press contributed to this report.