a former university of virginia football player is not in custody. investigators, family and friends try to understand what led up to such a violent night during a class field trip as a community mourns at their tragi loss. university of virginia students at local residents coming together for a vegetable monday night. at three uva students on football players that a jam are lead viel they venture junior and and deshawn parry were starting killed on a charter bu returning from a class trip sunday night. two other players were hospitalized with gunshot wound according to authorities of the class saw a play in washington dc and had just returned to campus when the shooting took place. twenty-two -year-old uba studen christopher darnell jones junio was arrested about 80 miles awa in richmond after a 12 hour manhunt and has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder.
they were warned about jones in the past. in september of 2022 arst office of student affairs reported to the multidisciplinary threat that mr. jones received information that he had made a comment abou possessing a gun. uba s head football coach 20 yet call the victims incredibly young men with huge aspirations and extremely bright futures th investigation continues. the triple murder at uba as one of many shootings and colleges across america as the crime crisis gets worst. i caught something in laura s piece because we ve been talkin about it a lot across the country and often happens you see whether uba police knew about the suspect they were warned about him and like so many times, nothing happened. this is such a tragedy in my heart breaks for these families.