community is going through earlier today. mr. jones came to the attention of the university of virginia s threat assessment team fall of 2022. in fact,, september of 2022 our office of student affairs reported to the multidisciplinary threat assessment team that mr. jones, they received information that mr. jones had made a comment about possessing a gun. the comment about mr. jones owning a gun was not made in conjunction with any threats. reporter: and what chief longo is talking about there, the suspect, christopher darnell jones, was someone that had come in contact with the university security staff because they were told he had a gun in his possession. no apparent threat connected to him. but longo was saying he was being as transparent as possible
the comment about mr. jones owning a gun was not made in conjunction with any threats. the office of student affairs followed up with the reporting person and made efforts to contact mr. jones. in fact, they followed up with mr. jones roommate, who did not report seeing the presence of a weapon. pardon me. thank you, captain. we just received information the suspect is in custody.
fall of 2022. in fact, in september our office of student affairs reported to the disciplinary threat assessment team that mr. jones they received information that mr. jones had made a comment about possessing a gun to a person that was unaffiliated to the university. in other words, a third party. that reporting person, again, unaffiliated with the university, to the best of our knowledge, never saw the gun. the comment about mr. jones owning a gun was not made in conjunction with any threats. the office of student affairs followed up and made efforts to contact mr. jones. in fact, they followed up with mr. jones roommate who did not report seeing the presence of a weapon.
about possessing a gun to a person that was unaffiliated with the university. in other words, a third party. that reporting person, again unaffiliated with the university, to best of our knowledge never saw the gun. the comment about mr. jones owning a gun was not made in conjunction with any threats. the office of student affairs followed up with the reporting person and made efforts to contact mr. jones. in fact, they followed up with mr. jones roommate who did not report seeing the presence of a weapon. pardon me. thank you, captain. we just received information that the suspect is in custody.
0 dana: there you go. it is bill hemmer s birthday and so glad as ainsley would say we re so glad you were born and so glad to work with you. you have a huge group of family and friends. feeling good on your birthday? bill: actually, yes. dana: look at that smile. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. harris: the first face-to-face meeting between an american president and china s communist leader since covid. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the president s meeting with leader xi comes as a possible invasion of taiwan is looming large. biden said on numerous occasions that the u.s. military would defend taiwan in the event of an attack by china. you know that s not our policy. who wants to tell him? maybe he will figure it out. the president in his remarks, though, still said he believes there should not be concerns about a new cold war between the u.s. and china and does not think there is any imminent attempt by china to invade taiwan. and he poi