New details emerge about the University of Virginia shooting suspect as students mourn the deaths of 3 football players - CNN

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A torrent of grief has enveloped the University of Virginia, wherever classes are canceled for a 2nd time aft 3 shot players were killed connected field and caller details look astir the chap pupil accused of sidesplitting them.

A vigil Monday drew hundreds connected the Charlottesville campus, with candles placed astir the Statue of Homer on with signs speechmaking “UVA Strong” and “1-15-41” – the azygous numbers of slain UVA shot players Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry.

Two different radical were wounded, with 1 successful captious and 1 successful bully condition, UVA spokesperson Brian Coy said Monday.

The victims had conscionable returned from a schoolhouse tract travel precocious Sunday erstwhile they were gunned down connected and adjacent a schoolhouse bus, officials person said. The suspect, an ex-UVA shot player, was successful custody by the adjacent morning; it’s not wide if helium was connected the tract trip.

The killings are among astatine slightest 68 shootings this twelvemonth connected US schoolhouse grounds, including 15 connected assemblage campuses. The incidental besides is among immoderate 600 US wide shootings this twelvemonth successful which astatine slightest 4 radical were shot, excluding a gunman, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

The UVA shooting prompted an hourslong manhunt – arsenic students locked down successful dorms, classrooms and libraries – earlier Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., was arrested precocious Monday greeting 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.

Police person not disclosed a motive for the attack.

A question of enactment – locally and nationwide – flowed into Charlottesville.

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

Jones was the taxable of a pending lawsuit with the university’s judicial assembly erstwhile Sunday’s shooting unfolded, officials said.

“On September 15, successful the discourse of reviewing a imaginable hazing issue, UVA Student Affairs heard from a pupil that Mr. Jones made a remark to him astir possessing a gun,” said Coy, the assemblage spokesperson.

That idiosyncratic “did not spot Mr. Jones successful possession of a gun,” and the “comment astir owning a weapon was not made successful conjunction with a threat,” Coy said.

“In the people of their investigation, University officials spoke with Mr. Jones’ roommate, who gave nary denotation of the beingness of immoderate weapons. In the people of their investigation, University officials discovered that Mr. Jones antecedently had been tried and convicted of a misdemeanor concealed weapons usurpation successful 2021, for which helium received a 12-month suspended condemnation and a tiny fine.”

Throughout the investigation, Coy said, “Mr. Jones repeatedly refused to cooperate with University officials who were seeking further accusation astir the claims that helium had a firearm and astir his nonaccomplishment to disclose the erstwhile misdemeanor conviction.”

So connected October 27, “the Threat Assessment Team escalated his lawsuit for disciplinary action,” Coy said.

The school’s judicial assembly took implicit the case, and the results are pending, the university’s constabulary main said.

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.

All 3 of those killed and astatine slightest 1 of the 2 injured were UVA shot players.

Davis, 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, helium 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.

Perry, a inferior linebacker, played successful 15 games implicit the past 3 seasons. On Saturday against Pittsburgh, helium tallied 2 tackles successful the 37-7 loss. Perry’s parents thanked supporters for their condolences successful a connection done their attorney.

Chandler, a inferior wide receiver and footwear returner, had precocious transferred to UVA this offseason from the University of Wisconsin, wherever the shot program said it 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,” a connection read. “Our thoughts spell retired to his family, friends and the Virginia shot family.”

Student Michael Hollins was injured, according to 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.

Hollins is expected to retrieve aft helium was changeable successful the back, with the slug lodged successful his stomach, his father, Michael Hollins Sr., told The Washington Post. The household did not instantly respond to CNN’s petition for comment.

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

Officials person not named the different injured victim.