Suspect caught in fatal shooting of 3 U.Va. football players

WXXV Staff,
Uva Football
This combo of undated image provided by University of Virginia Athletics shows NCAA college football players, from left, Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D'Sean Perry. The three Virginia football players were killed in a shooting, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, in Charlottesville, Va., while returning from a class trip to see a play. (University of Virginia Athletics via AP)

By SARAH RANKIN
Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) – Police have captured a University of Virginia student suspected of fatally shooting three members of the school’s football team as they returned to campus from a field trip.

Two other students were wounded. The violence erupted near a parking garage and sent the campus into a lockdown that lasted overnight while police searched for the gunman.

Officials got word during a mid-morning news briefing that the suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, had been taken into custody.

The shooting happened just after 10:15 p.m. Sunday as a charter bus full of students returned from seeing a play in Washington.

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