UVA shooting updates: Suspect was on deadly field trip - USA TODAY

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The fishy successful the University of Virginia shooting that near 3 radical dormant and 2 wounded was portion of the people tract travel that ended successful calamity Sunday night, a assemblage spokesperson said Tuesday.

UVA's Brian Coy said suspected gunman Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, was a subordinate of a radical of astir 2 twelve who traveled 120 miles by autobus to ticker a play successful Washington, past returned to campus.

"Someone amongst them chose to bash an enactment of violence" erstwhile the autobus got backmost astir 10:30 p.m., assemblage Police Chief Timothy Longo said. Officers responding to a study of shots fired recovered the bodies connected the bus, helium said.

Police said Jones, a erstwhile subordinate on the school’s shot team, opened occurrence wrong the autobus and killed 3 existent squad members portion wounding 2 different students, astatine slightest 1 of them besides a shot player.

Juniors D’Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler were identified arsenic the victims. Running backmost Mike Hollins, besides a third-year player, was one of 2 radical wounded successful the attack, his parent said.

The rampage prompted a 12-hour field lockdown portion constabulary pursued the shooter. Jones was arrested Monday greeting successful Henrico County, Virginia, adjacent Richmond. He is facing 3 charges of second-degree execution and 3 charges of usage of a firearm successful the committee of a felony.

Classes were canceled for a 2nd consecutive time Tuesday astatine the field assemblage mourned the victims and grappled with the shock of the violence.

Jones, a freshman connected the 2018 squad who did not play successful immoderate games, faces arraignment connected 3 counts of second-degree execution and related charges. No motive for the onslaught has been determined, authorities said.

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Wounded moving backmost Mike Hollins undergoes 2nd surgery

Virginia inferior moving backmost Mike Hollins is the 4th known unfortunate successful the shooting and was undergoing country Tuesday morning, according to his mother, Brenda. She wrote connected Twitter that her lad was scheduled to acquisition a 2nd country astatine 8 a.m. ET connected Tuesday. She asked followers to proceed praying for him and "for each of the families that are going done this horrific tragedy."

"Mike is successful country now!!! Please pray!" she wrote successful a 2nd tweet, adding the hashtags "#GODisgood" and her son's jersey number, #7. A autochthonal of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Hollins appeared successful 21 games during his archetypal 3 years astatine UVA. He has rushed for 215 yards and 2 touchdowns truthful acold this year.

– Tom Schad

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Father of fishy 'can't judge it,' apologizes for his son

Jones's father, Christopher Darnell Jones Sr., says he’s inactive trying to process the accusations against his son. Jones Sr. told NBC12 in Richmond, Va., that his lad ever excelled astatine everything helium tried and had a "movie star smile." But helium said something was disconnected erstwhile helium and his lad past spoke astir a period ago. He said immoderate radical were picking connected his lad and the young Jones "didn't cognize however to grip it." Jones Sr. told his lad to disregard it and spell backmost to school. 

“What happened? Why did it person to get this far?" his begetter said. “I don’t cognize what to accidental but I’m atrocious connected his behalf, and I apologize. He’s not a atrocious kid. He truly isn’t."

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Football coach, diversion manager contented heartfelt statements

Virginia caput shot manager Tony Elliott was excessively flooded with emotion Monday to talk publically astir the 3 players from his squad killed successful Sunday night's shooting, saying successful a connection they had "huge aspirations" and agleam futures.

Elliott plans to code the media at a quality league Tuesday astatine 3:30 p.m. ET.

“I cannot find the words to explicit the devastation and heartache that our squad is feeling contiguous aft the tragic events," Elliott said successful the statement. "These were unthinkable young men (who) touched us, inspired america and worked incredibly hard arsenic representatives of our program, assemblage and community. Rest successful peace, young men.”

Virginia athletics manager Carla Williams said that, arsenic a parent of three, she "aches for the parents and household members. We mislaid 3 talented and agleam young men. We volition ne'er spot what their interaction connected the satellite would person been, but we volition ne'er hide their interaction connected us.”

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Service dogs supply invited distraction for students

Dozens of UVA students and unit members took a respite from rainfall and sadness Tuesday to walk clip with animals provided by Service dogs of Virginia, a nonprofit that places dogs with radical battling issues ranging from diabetes to autism to PTSD.

Among the achromatic and yellowish Labradors was Champ, a saccharine and unruly work canine successful training. Champ, 6 months old, is already a “fixture connected campus” and has helped students decompress during finals and midterms, his handler Amy Lowell said. Lowell said the skills a canine needs to assistance a idiosyncratic with PTSD construe good to helping students during stressful situations.

"In times similar these a canine is precise delicate to what’s going connected and ... is ace adjuvant conscionable by being fluffy and delicious," she said.

Champ alternated betwixt greeting students, chewing connected cardboard signs that work “dog emotion nary charge” and barking astatine his companions similar Holly, an 8-month-old achromatic Labrador. Holly’s handler, adjunct prof of nursing Beth Quatrara, volunteers with the nonprofit and said the lawsuit was a mode for members of the nursing schoolhouse to enactment the community.

“Coping with the aftermath of the shooting is each astir enactment and leaning connected each other, reaching retired to each other. And that's what's gonna get america through,” said Quatrara, who has taught astatine the assemblage for 25 years. “And Holly's going to assistance each measurement of the way.”

Hundreds gathered Monday nighttime to mourn connected campus

Students, module and assemblage members gathered Monday nighttime to retrieve the dormant and reflect connected the tragedy. At fraternity and sorority houses steps distant from the transgression scene, students spray-painted "UVA Strong" and "Virginia Strong" banners, displaying the names and numbers of Perry, Davis and Chandler. Luke Stone, 21, a absorption and selling major, said the messages were meant to supply encouragement to the emotionally shattered field community.

"It's been a pugnacious time for a batch of people," Stone said, lasting successful beforehand of a "Cville Strong" banner Monday afternoon. "Just a sad, pugnacious time for each of us."

– N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY