Classes remain canceled at the University of Virginia as campus mourns 3 football players who were fatally shot - CNN

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The University of Virginia canceled classes Tuesday arsenic it “continues to enactment done the affectional toll” of Sunday’s shooting that near three of the school’s shot players dead and 2 others injured.

The shooting prompted an hours-long manhunt extending from Sunday nighttime into Monday morning. It ended erstwhile the alleged gunman, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., was arrested successful Henrico County, astir 80 miles eastbound of Charlottesville. Jones faces 3 charges of second-degree execution and 3 counts of utilizing a handgun successful the committee of a felony, UVA Police Chief Timothy Longo Sr. said Monday.

Police person not offered a motive for the attack.

The 3 players who died successful the shooting were identified arsenic wide receivers Devin Chandler and Lavel Davis Jr. on with linebacker D’Sean Perry, according to the university.

Two different students were besides injured, but lone 1 of them – Michael Hollins – was identified. The 2 wounded students are being treated astatine UVA Medical Center, with 1 successful captious information and the different successful bully condition, UVA spokesperson Brian Coy said, declining to sanction them.

A question of enactment – some locally and nationwide – flowed into Charlottesville aft the quality broke Monday. The schoolhouse held a candlelight vigil Monday, drafting hundreds to the campus, according to a tweeted photograph from the school’s shot team.

The women’s hoops squad astatine rival Virginia Tech wore “#HokiesforHoos” shirts Monday.

The University of Wisconsin, wherever Chandler antecedently played, released a connection saying their programme was “deeply saddened ” by the tragic deaths.

“This is simply a hard clip for players and unit due to the fact that of the lasting interaction Devin had connected his friends and teammates,” the connection read. “Our thoughts spell retired to his family, friends and the Virginia shot family.”

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke connected the shooting soon aft swearing successful a caller ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago connected Monday.

“It’s tragic,” Harris said. “Of course, our prayers are with the families of the victims and it’s conscionable yet a changeless reminder that we person to bash amended successful presumption of weapon information laws successful our country.”

At slightest 68 shootings have unfolded this twelvemonth connected US schoolhouse grounds, including 15 connected assemblage campuses, with astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic changeable successful each case, not including the shooter. The deadliest schoolhouse shooting successful modern US history remains the 2007 onslaught astatine Virginia Tech successful Blacksburg, wherever a 23-year-old pupil killed 32 radical earlier dying by suicide.

The shooting astatine the Charlottesville field is besides 1 of astir 600 wide shootings successful the US this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which similar CNN tallies cases successful which astatine slightest 4 radical are shot, excluding the shooter.

The shooting astatine UVA took spot Sunday arsenic a people was returning from a travel to Washington, DC. The people had seen a play, assemblage officials said, and it was not instantly wide if Jones was portion of that people oregon attended the tract trip.

Police responded to a study of shots fired astir 10:30 p.m. successful an country adjacent a parking store connected Culbreth Road and surrounded by world buildings, assemblage President Jim Ryan said. Two slain victims were wrong the bus, with the 3rd unfortunate taken to a hospital, wherever helium died, said Longo, the school’s constabulary chief.

The telephone prompted a shelter-in-place alert that was lifted astir 12 hours later, Longo said. More than 500 radical sheltered passim field buildings, including successful libraries and classrooms, helium said.

Classes astatine UVA and for Charlottesville metropolis schools were canceled Monday arsenic a effect of the shooting.

Authorities launched a manhunt for Jones pursuing the onslaught Sunday. Then, astir 11 a.m. ET Monday, a Henrico County constabulary serviceman spotted the conveyance Jones was driving successful the eastbound country of the region wherever helium was “taken into custody without incident,” according to quality merchandise from the constabulary division.

Jones is listed connected UVA’s athletics website arsenic a shot subordinate successful 2018 who arsenic a freshman did not enactment successful immoderate games. He attended Varina High School and Petersburg High School, wherever helium played shot arsenic a linebacker and moving back, according to his assemblage athletics bio.

A UVA spokesperson told CNN Jones had a pre-existing wounded that prevented him from playing connected the shot squad successful 2018. Jones went done aesculapian attraction and rehabilitation during his clip with the squad and was lone a subordinate of the squad for 1 season, the spokesperson says.

The spokesperson would not springiness details connected Jones’ injury.

Jones had antecedently been connected the radar of campus authorities. In September, authorities recovered retired Jones “had made a remark astir possessing a gun” to idiosyncratic “unaffiliated with the university,” Longo said astatine Monday’s quality conference. But that idiosyncratic ne'er really saw the weapon successful question, helium said.

“Through the people of the menace appraisal team’s investigation, we learned of a anterior transgression incidental involving a concealed limb usurpation that occurred extracurricular the metropolis of Charlotteville successful February of 2021,” Longo said, adding the fishy was required to study that incidental to the assemblage but ne'er did. The school’s judicial assembly took implicit the case, and the results are pending.

Jones was besides progressive successful a hazing probe connected field that was closed due to the fact that witnesses would not cooperate, Longo said.

All 3 victims and 1 of the 2 injured were confirmed to beryllium UVA shot players.

Lavel Davis Jr., a inferior from South Carolina, was 1 of the apical wide receivers for the Virginia Cavaliers this season. As a 6-foot-7-inch receiver, Davis was the team’s superior heavy threat, with 16 catches for 371 yards and 2 touchdowns connected the year, bully for a stellar 23.2 yards per catch.

D’Sean Perry, a inferior linebacker, has played successful 15 games implicit the past 3 seasons. On Saturday against Pittsburgh, helium tallied 2 tackles successful the 37-7 loss. In a connection done their attorney, Michael Haggard, Perry’s parents thanked the South Florida and Charlottesville communities for the enactment they’ve received since the shooting.

Devin Chandler, a inferior wide receiver and footwear returner, had precocious transferred to UVA this offseason from the University of Wisconsin.

One of the 2 injured students was identified arsenic Michael Hollins, according to Andrew Martin, the caput shot manager astatine the University Lab School successful Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Hollins is simply a inferior moving backmost for UVA, according to the team’s roster. CNN has reached retired to Hollins’ household but has not received a response.

Hollins’ father, Michael Hollins Sr., told The Washington Post his lad was changeable successful the backmost with the slug lodged successful his stomach. Hollins Sr. told the Post he’s expected to recover.

Hollins was expected to postgraduate successful December with a grade successful entrepreneurship and African American history, his begetter told the Post.