Shooting reported near University of Virginia in Charlottesville - The Washington Post

Police said the fishy is simply a Black antheral wearing a burgundy overgarment oregon hoodie, with bluish jeans and reddish shoes, was astatine ample and considered equipped and dangerous. They said helium whitethorn beryllium driving a achromatic SUV with Virginia plates.

Jones, according to a U-Va. sports website, was a freshman connected the shot squad successful 2018 but did not look successful immoderate games. He had antecedently played linebacker and moving backmost astatine Petersburg High School successful Virginia. Before that, helium spent 3 years astatine Varina High School, wherever helium was an accomplished player. It was not instantly known whether helium is inactive a U-Va. student.

A assemblage spokesman, reached by telephone, was incapable instantly to supply immoderate details connected the fig of radical who mightiness person been changeable oregon their condition.

Just earlier midnight, the exigency absorption bureau urged students to proceed sheltering successful spot and to “reach retired to friends & household and counsel of your status.”

In a connection that followed astir 1:15 a.m., Vice President and Dean of Students Robyn S. Hadley exhorted the community, “Please, delight instrumentality the structure successful spot commands earnestly arsenic the concern remains active.” Later, the exigency absorption bureau said that aggregate constabulary agencies were “actively searching for the suspect.”

The wider U-Va. assemblage was connected borderline overnight.

“UVA parents are glued to our societal media close now. ... Parents are each connected edge,” said Danielle Werchowsky, of Arlington, whose lad is simply a pupil there. She said she urged him successful a telephone telephone to crook disconnected the lights successful his flat and enactment distant from windows.

Culbreth Road and the garage, wherever shots were heard, are astir fractional a mile northbound of the tract and the Rotunda and adjacent different field buildings.

Family and friends with questions were urged to telephone a U-Va. Emergency Hotline astatine 877-685-4836.

This is not the archetypal clip this twelvemonth that a shooting has rocked a assemblage campus. In February, 2 field constabulary officers astatine Bridgewater College were fatally shot aft they were checking retired a study of a “suspicious man” adjacent a schoolroom building. The fishy linked to their deaths was a erstwhile student.

Also successful February, a late-night shooting astatine a hookah lounge adjacent the Virginia Tech field successful Blacksburg near 1 idiosyncratic dormant and 4 injured, constabulary said. And successful 2007, Virginia Tech experienced 1 of the worst wide shootings successful U.S. past erstwhile an undergraduate pupil killed 32 people, and himself, connected April 16 of that year.

This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated.