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University of Virginia CANCEL final home football game of the season after horrific shooting that killed three Cavaliers players and injured two other students
- The University of Virginia canceled its last home game of the season
- The move comes after three team members are killed and two others injured
- The deceased victims are Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry and Devin Chandler
- Former Cavaliers walk-on Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. has been arrested
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The University of Virginia canceled its last home football game of the season on Wednesday, the same day a student accused of killing three members of the team and wounding two other students in a campus shooting was due to appear before his first hearing .
University and police officials have said 22-year-old Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. has joined a group of about two dozen others on a Sunday field trip from the Charlottesville campus to see a play in the nation’s capital, about 120 miles away. When their bus arrived back on campus, authorities said Jones opened fire, killing Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry and Devin Chandler and wounding two others, one of them also a football player.
University of Virginia head football coach Tony Elliott listens to a question as he addresses the media at a news conference about the murder of three football players and the injury of two others Tuesday at the University of Virginia
Jones — who police said was able to flee the scene of the shooting, sparking a manhunt and sealing off the campus for 12 hours — is facing three counts of second-degree murder, two counts of willful wounding and additional gun-related charges.
The violence at the state’s premier public university has sparked days of mourning among students and faculty, the wider Charlottesville community and other supporters. Classes resumed on Wednesday, though the school announced it would cancel Saturday’s game against Coastal Carolina.
No decision has yet been made on whether UVA will participate in the final game of the season on Nov. 26 against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, the university said in a press release.
On Wednesday, Jones was scheduled to appear via video link from a local jail, according to the district attorney handling the case, Albemarle Commonwealth attorney James Hingeley.
Online records do not list an attorney for Jones. If he qualifies financially for court-appointed counsel, a lawyer will be appointed on Wednesday, Hingeley wrote in an email, adding that there could also be provisional bail at the hearing.
Jones has been in custody since he was arrested late Monday morning in suburban Richmond.
University president Jim Ryan said Monday that authorities did not have a “full understanding” of the motive behind the shooting. Court documents filed so far in the case offer no additional insight.
Jones was on the football team during the 2018 season, a one-semester walk-on, according to athletics director Carla Williams.
In interviews, his father has expressed confusion and surprise and apologized to the families of the victims.
Of the two students hospitalized, one was discharged from the medical center on Tuesday, according to Eric Swensen, a spokesman for the health system.
Relatives of Mike Hollins, a running back on the team, have said he underwent a second surgery on Tuesday.