Authorities: 3 UVA football players killed; suspect in custody - WGAL Susquehanna Valley Pa.

Good greeting everyone. My sanction is Jim Ryan and I'm the president of the University of Virginia. This is *** sad, shocking and tragic time for our U. V. *** community. I volition picture concisely what we cognize astatine this constituent and past crook things implicit to Chief Longo. But earlier I bash that, fto maine accidental however profoundly however profoundly atrocious I americium for the victims and for their household and friends. Um truthful successful presumption of what we cognize arsenic I mentioned successful an email we sent retired aboriginal this greeting past nighttime astatine astir 10:30 p.m. University constabulary responded to *** telephone of shots fired successful the acold enactment parking store area. The suspected shooter is U. V. *** student, Christopher Darnell jones Jr. Upon accomplishment astatine the scene, assemblage constabulary encountered respective victims of gunshot wounds. The shootings occurred connected *** autobus afloat of students turning from *** tract trip. Three of the victims did not survive. They were devin Chandler *** 2nd twelvemonth from Virginia beach, Virginia. Lovell Davis, *** 3rd twelvemonth pupil from Ridgeville southbound Carolina And Sean Perry, 1/4 twelvemonth pupil from Miami Florida. All 3 were members of the shot team. Two different students were wounded and are being treated for injuries astatine the U. V. *** aesculapian center. One is successful bully condition, 1 is successful captious information successful bid to support their privacy. We are not releasing their names astatine this infinitesimal the families of each the victims person been notified and the assemblage is providing immoderate and each disposable assistance. I person spoken with 4 of the families and I spoke straight to the pupil who is successful bully information instrumentality enforcement, including assemblage police, section instrumentality enforcement agencies successful Virginia. State constabulary proceed their hunt for the fishy and volition not halt until helium is found. They person however, lifted the structure successful spot bid pursuing an exhaustive gathering by gathering hunt of grounds and are assured that the fishy has near the country classes successful each extracurricular activities person been canceled for today, including the men's hoops games scheduled for this evening. Although we bash not yet person *** afloat knowing of the motive and circumstances surrounding these events. Police are investigating arsenic we speak. We volition proceed to support the assemblage notified of developments via our exigency alert strategy and further assemblage wide emails. I'm grateful to instrumentality enforcement for their effect and to our assemblage for facilitating their enactment with what I recognize has been *** agelong structure successful spot order. This is an unimaginably bittersweet time for our community. The full assemblage assemblage is grieving this morning. My bosom is breached for the victims and their families and for each who those who knew and loved them and they are each successful my prayers arsenic I've said earlier erstwhile I spot our students, I spot my ain kids and I cannot ideate thing worse for *** genitor than to suffer *** child. Please cognize we volition bash everything. We tin to grant their lives and volition travel unneurotic soon arsenic *** assemblage to mourn these losses. In the meantime, if you request help, particularly our students, delight don't hesitate to scope retired to the resources listed successful the email I sent aboriginal this greeting and delight scope retired to each different and lend each different and receptor and the shoulder, adjacent if virtually this is an extraordinarily hard time for our assemblage and we request to comfortableness and enactment each different and those closest to the victims of this horrendous shooting, Thank you. And present I'd similar to crook it implicit to Chief Longo. Thank you. President Ryan. Um, convey each of you for for assembling successful present this day and giving america the accidental to archer what happened implicit the past respective hours and possibly adjacent reply immoderate of your questions. I'll accidental from the precise beginning, determination volition beryllium questions that volition person nary answers and halt due to the fact that I don't privation to archer you, it's due to the fact that we conscionable don't know. So I anticipation you'll beryllium diligent with that and spot that erstwhile we bash know, you'll cognize this has been an incredibly agelong evening, precise tragic circumstances for our assemblage community, for the metropolis of Charlottesville, the region Valdemar, the commonwealth, particularly tragic for um, *** tiny fig of families who we had to interruption immoderate truly atrocious quality too. And um, immoderate of you tried to scope retired done passim the evening and we didn't instrumentality your calls. I apologize for that 1 oregon much of you mightiness adjacent got hung up connected successful the midst of of chaos. And truthful I apologize for that arsenic good When this telephone came retired conscionable aft 10:00 past night, astir 10:16 and we knew the circumstances. We instantly initiated an exigency alert. Everyone with *** you via email code and *** compartment telephone fig that we person entree to, gets that alert. And that alert is sent retired by our bureau of exigency management. It's updated each 15 minutes, which arsenic overmuch arsenic overmuch accusation arsenic we tin provide. And Since 1016, up until conscionable astir 30 minutes ago, our students were sheltered wherever they were and much than 500 of them were sheltered successful buildings passim grounds, studying successful libraries, classrooms and different places. Um and they've cooperated with the directive that they received and we're precise grateful for that arsenic well. And uh, fortunately we've been capable to assistance that alert arsenic President Ryan mentioned. We uh acknowledgment to the concern of our metropolis of Charlottesville, Partners County of Al tomorrow, the Virginia State Police, our national partners, the ***. T. F. The FBI, the U. S. Marshal work big of instrumentality enforcement officers who came to america to assistance unafraid *** scene, hunt for evidence, process that country for grounds and present unafraid our grounds. While we did the exhaustive hunt to the precise champion of our abilities. We're reasonably assured that the idiosyncratic liable for this calamity is not connected our grounds but marque nary mistake astir it. We volition find him wherever helium is and bring the resources of each national instrumentality enforcement bureau successful this federation who has the capableness and the quality to look for him beyond our boundaries. And if he's successful the commonwealth of Virginia, the radical that are lasting down maine volition prosecute successful that hunt arsenic well. The bodies of Devon and Sean arsenic President Ryan indicated were recovered wrong *** charter autobus wherever they had been for the day, enjoying schoolhouse activity, having *** repast unneurotic and coming backmost to our grounds and idiosyncratic amongst them chose to bash an enactment of unit and we recovered them dormant wrong that bus. And for hours we had to process *** transgression scene. And I cognize I don't person to archer you however hard that is for *** household to not know, to spot email chatter and societal media and we did our champion to effort to support up with that to fto radical cognize what we knew and what we were trying to do. And hopefully present that we've caught up, we'll beryllium capable to proceed to stock that connection to the galore families crossed this satellite that person young radical present astatine our assemblage to fto them cognize that that determination their young radical are good and that determination volition beryllium radical present for galore days to instrumentality attraction of them, this beardown instrumentality enforcement beingness that you've astir apt seen connected our grounds for the past respective hours represented by the agency's down maine volition enactment present until we're reasonably comfy that that um this idiosyncratic is successful custody. Well successful summation to our section authorities and national partners but the talents and skills of our colleagues successful the aesculapian halfway um who person been with america passim this travel and volition stay with america for the 2 students that we person determination uh seeking treatment. We profoundly admit um their efforts arsenic well. We've secured apprehension warrants for Mr jones. We've charged him with 3 counts of 2nd grade execution and we charged him with 3 counts of utilizing *** handgun successful the committee of *** felony. Those facts and circumstances were reviewed by *** judicial serviceman and those are the charges that were proffered. There comes *** constituent successful clip that those charges request to beryllium amended successful definite facts and circumstances originate that volition origin america to bash that. We'll bash that but we'll bash that done the proposal and counsel of of our uh commonwealth's attorney. And did the grade national instrumentality applies. Uh the serviceman of the United States Attorney for the Western District. Mr Kavanaugh was contiguous present today. I privation to springiness you *** statement of of Mr jones. He is described arsenic *** achromatic male. He was calved connected November the 19th 1999 erstwhile helium was past seen connected our grounds. He was wearing *** burgundy jacket, bluish jeans and reddish shoes. We judge he's driving *** achromatic suv bearing Virginia registration T. As successful tango W. S. And whiskey. X. Is an X ray 3580 T. W. X. 3580. We implore anyone who's connected our highways and byways who should spot that conveyance bearing that tag to telephone 911 instantly and study his whereabouts. Try to support that conveyance successful sight. We judge possibly that Mr jones remains equipped and he's to beryllium considered unsafe and treated accordingly. I privation to stock immoderate accusation with you um due to the fact that I privation to beryllium transparent with you, I privation you to cognize what what I cognize to the grade I tin stock that information. This afternoon, Mr jones came to the attraction of the University of Virginia's menace appraisal squad In the autumn of 2022. Back successful September of 2022. Our Office of Student Affairs reported to the Multidisciplinary menace appraisal squad that Mr jones, they received accusation that Mr jones had made *** remark astir possessing *** weapon To *** idiosyncratic that was unaffiliated with the university. In different words, the 3rd enactment that reporting idiosyncratic again unaffiliated with the assemblage to the champion of our knowledge. You ne'er saw *** gun. The remark astir Mr jones owning *** weapon was not made successful conjunction with immoderate threats. The other Student Affairs followed up with the reporting idiosyncratic and made efforts to interaction Mr jones. In information they followed up with Mr jones roommate who did not study seeing the beingness of *** weapon, pardon me, Thank you, skipper we conscionable received information, the fishy is successful custody. Just request *** infinitesimal to convey God, respire *** suspiration of relief. Mr jones besides had travel to the attraction of *** menace appraisal squad due to the fact that helium was progressive successful *** *** hazing probe of immoderate sort. I don't cognize the facts and circumstances, that investigation, I cognize that uh, it was yet closed owed to uh witnesses that would not cooperate with the process. But done the people of the menace appraisal teams investigation, we learned of *** anterior transgression incidental involving *** concealed limb usurpation that occurred extracurricular the metropolis of Charlottesville successful February of 2021. What's absorbing astir that lawsuit is he's he's required arsenic *** pupil astatine the University of Virginia to study that and helium ne'er did. And truthful the assemblage has taken due administrative charges done the university's Judiciary Council and that substance is inactive pending adjudication. Thought it important to stock that accusation with you to fto you cognize that. Um helium had been called to our attraction and to reply immoderate questions you mightiness person astir that. I privation you to perceive that. I privation you to perceive that from me, not perceive it from idiosyncratic else. So, I'll halt determination and uh, we'll instrumentality immoderate questions that you mightiness person *** mates questions Chief oregon president tin you discuss? Uh, what, wherever the hellhole was going? The affiliation of the radical that were connected that autobus and connected that tract trip. Uh And if the fishy that tripped oregon stepped onto the bus, Thank you for the question. The accusation we person astatine this clip is that the tract travel was associated with the people and the um individuals that person been named were portion of that travel um To spot *** play that is to spot *** play associated with the class. So it was *** people tract trip. I bash not person those details. I bash not, I'm sorry, I bash not. We're seeking retired each of the that accusation arsenic you tin imagine. The students are rather traumatized by the tragic events. Do not person the nonstop location. We are finalizing each of that. So the play was successful Washington D. C. I person not been shared that accusation yet and it volition travel *** constituent successful clip erstwhile we volition stock that information, I'm sure, but present is not the astir due time. Who are you successful the three? Um We're not releasing accusation astir the patients who are inactive successful the infirmary astatine this time. I can't talk for pupil affairs. Uh the University Police Department had nary interaction him with this. University Police section is 1 of galore radical that's connected that multidisciplinary menace appraisal squad and we supply immoderate of the inheritance with respect to individuals to travel earlier that team. But to my knowledge, we did not person immoderate interaction with Mr jones with respect to that incident. Get connected the bus. My knowing is ballpark astir 25, however helium got away, however helium was, don't cognize however helium he got distant oregon however it was that helium fled the scene. And I don't person accusation with respect to however helium was apprehended. What led to the we're successful the process of doing that now. Not astatine this clip erstwhile And wherever did the unfortunate die? Two were recovered dormant connected the bus. The 3rd unfortunate was transported to the aesculapian halfway and died there. Do we cognize Mr jones's status? At 1 constituent helium was connected the shot team, He was inactive *** pupil present arsenic of this morning. Was helium inactive affiliated with the shot team? Um, helium was inactive *** student, but to my knowledge, helium was nary longer connected the shot squad and hadn't been connected the squad for implicit *** year. The 2 different victims were students. I don't cognize to what grade they had *** narration with him. I don't cognize that for sure, you personally, person been progressive with truthful galore tragedies that person happened here. If you could conscionable speech astir if you've been capable to process those feelings astatine each what this assemblage has been done implicit the past decennary oregon so, and however this impacts each of that. I don't cognize that I've truly had clip to process that. Uh, to the grade that you talk of, I tin archer you that the radical basal down that are lasting down maine now. It speaks for itself however we get done these things. Um These uh these agencies that are represented present were connected these grounds precise quickly. I'll effort to bash amended adjacent time. That's each I person for close now. We can't bash this unsocial and we evidently haven't and we recovered connected campus, disconnected field astatine least, oregon wherever he's successful custody. Well, I tin archer you to the champion of my knowledge. He was not recovered connected campus. I cannot archer you wherever helium was located, oregon wherever helium was taken into custody oregon wherever he's located now.