Bevy of guns, ammo, accessories found at suspected UVa shooter's dorm, police say - Richmond Times-Dispatch

Authorities said they recovered a firearm and manus gun, magazines of ammunition and a instrumentality to load bullets faster wrong the University of Virginia dorm country of suspected shooter Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., according to a hunt warrant obtained by the Charlottesville Daily Progress and an announcement from police. 

Near the country of the shooting, constabulary discovered an further handgun. The details uncovered Thursday capable successful immoderate of the gaps regarding however galore firearms Jones owned astatine the clip of the shooting. 

Three shot players died successful the shooting — Devin Chandler, D'Sean Perry and Lavel Davis Jr. Two others were wounded, Michael Hollins and Marlee Morgan. Hollins, who was treated for life-threatening injuries, was upgraded to just condition. Morgan sustained non-life threatening injuries. 

On Monday morning, portion the shooter was connected the lam, Virginia State Police Special Agent B.D. Tuggle obtained a hunt warrant for Jones's country successful Bice Hall, an eight-story residential gathering adjacent the South Lawn. 

According to the hunt warrant, Tuggle recovered a Ruger AR-556 – a benignant of semiautomatic rifle – and a Smith & Wesson exemplary 39 pistol. Also wrong the country were 2 afloat oregon nearly-full 30-round AR magazines, a container of Winchester .223 ammunition, a brace of Glock 9 mm magazines and a abstracted 9mm bullet. It's unclear if the magazines were bare oregon full. 

Tuggle besides recovered respective items of firearm paraphernalia: a binary trigger, an optical sight, a red-dot sight, fiberglass gloves, a buffer outpouring constituent to a rifle, a holster and a backmost strap.

A binary trigger, which is designed to summation the firing velocity of a semiautomatic rifle, is ineligible successful Virginia. The national authorities has banned akin devices, specified arsenic bump stocks. 

Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Richard E. Moore approved the hunt warrant astatine 8:20 a.m. Monday, astir 3 hours earlier Jones was arrested successful Henrico County. 

Jones, who turned 23 Thursday, legally purchased the rifle and a Glock 45 9mm pistol this twelvemonth from Dance's Sporting Goods successful Colonial Heights, the store's proprietor said. Police person not said if the Glock was the weapon recovered astatine the scene. 

On Thursday, constabulary confirmed assorted media reports that Jones had traveled with 21 different students and prof Theresa M. Davis connected Sunday via chartered autobus to Washington to ticker a play astatine the Atlas Performing Arts Center. After the production, the radical ate meal astatine a Washington edifice earlier returning to field astir 10:15 p.m.

When the autobus had stopped astatine Culbreth Garage, and students began to basal up, Jones revealed a firearm and started shooting, constabulary said. As helium exited the bus, helium fired much shots and fled connected foot. 

In his achromatic Dodge Durango, helium drove astir 80 miles eastbound to eastbound Henrico County, constabulary said. Around 11 a.m. Monday, constabulary saw his car and initiated a postulation halt successful the 5700 artifact of Edgelawn Street. They said they apprehended him without incident. 

Police haven't determined wherever Jones went successful the much than 12 hours helium was sought, but helium attended adjacent Varina High School. Officials aren't saying what caused Jones to unfastened fire. 

"At this signifier of the investigation, authorities constabulary is not successful a presumption to remark connected Jones' motives down the shootings," said Corinne Geller, spokesperson for Virginia State Police.

Relatives of Jones told media outlets that helium was bullied astatine school. Ryan Lynch, a UVA pupil who was connected the bus, heard Jones remark to Davis, "You guys are ever messing with me." But that remark didn't marque consciousness to Lynch, due to the fact that she hadn't seen Jones interact with the victims astir of the day.

Two of the victims – Chandler, 20, a sophomore from Huntersville, N.C., and Perry, 22, a elder from Miami – died astatine the scene. The Albemarle County commonwealth's lawyer said earlier this week that Chandler was changeable successful his sleep. Davis, 20, a inferior from Dorchester, S.C., was transported to UVa Medical Center, wherever helium died from his injuries. The remains of the 3 men were transported to the Office of the Medical Examiner for autopsy.

Jones appeared via video nexus astatine a proceeding Wednesday and is being held without bond. He faces 3 counts of second-degree murder, 2 of malicious wounding and utilizing a firearm to perpetrate a felony. 

UVa volition behaviour an outer review, led by Attorney General Jason Miyares, of its probe of Jones, successful which the schoolhouse ne'er referred his lawsuit to the judiciary committee. It's unclear why. Miyares volition spearhead the reappraisal astatine the petition of UVa and its board.

While UVa attempted to talk with Jones arsenic portion of the investigation, helium refused to cooperate, schoolhouse spokesperson Brian Coy said. It's unclear what efforts were made to scope him. 

"We are inviting an outer reappraisal with respect to the university's interactions with the fishy and whether we did each we could to forestall oregon debar this tragedy," UVa President Jim Ryan said. "This volition apt instrumentality a while, but we volition stock and enactment upon what we yet learn."

A memorial work volition hap Saturday astatine 3:30 p.m. astatine John Paul Jones Arena successful spot of the shot game, which UVa canceled Wednesday. The memorial work is scheduled to beryllium carried unrecorded connected the ACC Network.

The lawsuit is unfastened to each visitors and volition beryllium unrecorded streamed. The assemblage has offered enactment and counseling to students, galore of whom were forced to structure successful spot for 12 hours portion the gunman was astatine large. Additional assistance was offered to the students connected the autobus wherever the shooting took spot and those associated with the victims.

Ryan said it's apt the assemblage volition ne'er larn 1 azygous origin for the shooting.

"It whitethorn besides beryllium that we ne'er genuinely recognize wherefore this happened," Ryan said. "But what we learn, we volition share."

On Thursday, Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, honored the lives of Davis, Chandler and Perry connected the level of the House of Representatives. Spanberger, a UVa alumna, called them selfless, funny and determined to marque the assemblage and the authorities a stronger place. 

"Please articulation maine successful remembering their lives, honoring their memories and lasting beardown arsenic their families mourn," she said.