Prosecutor announces more charges against University of Virginia shooting suspect before his first scheduled court appearance - CNN

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Additional charges were announced Tuesday against the antheral accused of killing 3 shot players and wounding 2 others successful a play shooting astatine the University of Virginia up of his archetypal tribunal quality Wednesday.

The caller charges – 2 counts of malicious wounding, each accompanied by a firearm complaint – are related to the 2 radical who were injured successful the Sunday shooting, Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Attorney James Hingeley told CNN.

The deadly unit erupted connected a autobus that had returned to the Charlottesville field Sunday aft a tract travel to Washington, DC, wherever a people had seen a play, a UVA spokesperson said.

The suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., was connected the travel and connected the bus, schoolhouse spokesperson Brian Coy confirmed.

Jones besides 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. antecedently said.

Jones’ archetypal proceeding volition instrumentality spot successful Albemarle General District Court connected Wednesday morning, tribunal records show.

“In his archetypal appearance, the suspect volition beryllium advised of his close to counsel,” Hingeley said. “Should helium beryllium financially eligible for court-appointed counsel, a lawyer volition beryllium appointed for him. The tribunal whitethorn besides bash a preliminary bail review.”

Jones was arrested successful Henrico County, astir 80 miles eastbound of Charlottesville, Monday afternoon, and was transferred to the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail Tuesday afternoon.

When announcing the further charges Tuesday evening, Hingeley identified the radical injured successful the shooting arsenic Marlee Morgan and Michael Hollins.

Hollins, a inferior moving backmost connected the university’s shot team, was intubated but unchangeable Tuesday greeting his household said. CNN reached retired to the household of Marlee Morgan.

UVA Health spokesperson Eric Swensen gave CNN a presumption update connected the 2 injured radical Tuesday, saying 1 idiosyncratic was discharged and the different was successful superior condition. Swensen did not place either person.

The 3 shot players killed successful the shooting were antecedently identified arsenic Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry.

UVA pupil Ryan Lynch told CNN affiliate KYW-TV she was connected the autobus wherever the shooting took spot and saw Jones propulsion 1 of the victims.

“Chris got up and pushed Lavel,” Lynch said. “After helium pushed him, helium was similar ‘You guys are ever messing with me.’ Said thing weird similar that, but it was precise bizarre due to the fact that they didn’t speech to him the full trip.”

Then gunfire erupted.

“They conscionable kept coming, much and much gunshots,” Lynch told KYW. “We thought helium was going to sprout everyone connected the bus.”

But “the shooter conscionable benignant of walked or, like, skipped disconnected the bus,” Lynch said.

Prior to Sunday’s shooting, Jones was the taxable of a pending lawsuit with the university’s judicial assembly arsenic 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 Brian 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.”

Coy said passim the probe “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.”

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

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

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

“What I bash cognize is the young antheral was a pupil opening successful 2018 and was a walk-on for 1 semester with our shot program,” UVA Athletics Director Carla Williams said Tuesday.

On Tuesday, UVA shot caput manager Tony Elliott spoke publically for the archetypal clip since the shooting. He described the days pursuing the onslaught arsenic a nightmare.

“I’m acceptable for idiosyncratic to pinch maine and aftermath maine up and accidental this didn’t happen,” Elliott said, adding that Tuesday “was overmuch better, we were capable to modulation from the symptom to uncovering a small spot of joyousness successful celebrating the lives of Lavel, D’Sean and Devin.”

The deaths of players Chandler, Davis Jr. and Perry near 3 tremendous holes connected a squad that felt much similar household than anything, the manager said. He went connected to picture them, calling Chandler “the beingness of the party,” Davis “the large antheral connected campus” and Perry “the quiescent feline everyone wanted to cognize about.”

Elliott commended the spot of his squad and unit for coming unneurotic and being capable to process the shooting. Elliott said the squad has inspired him to support pushing forward. At the aforesaid time, helium said unit has made it their ngo to guarantee the squad had each the resources they request and that nary 1 went into isolation.

“The connection to the squad is we’re going to observe their lives going guardant and the interaction that they’ve made frankincense acold and the bequest that they’re going to beryllium a portion of helping america found going forward,” Elliott said.

As the squad and assemblage mourn, questions stay astir the logistics of shot and the assemblage arsenic a full going forward. Classes astatine UVA are acceptable to resume Wednesday, Mike Mather, managing exertion for UVA Today, told CNN Tuesday afternoon.

The Cavaliers are besides scheduled to play a crippled against Coastal Carolina connected Saturday.

Williams said the athletics section – on with the shot squad and unit – volition marque the determination connected whether to play connected Saturday.

“We’ll usage our champion judgment,” she said precocious Tuesday. “We’ll marque a determination soon.”

Correction: A erstwhile mentation of this communicative incorrectly spelled the past sanction of UVA Health spokesperson Eric Swensen.