On Monday morning, officials revealed that 23-year-old Christopher Darnell Jones was taken into custody after a fatal shooting on the University of Virginia's campus on Sunday evening.
Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo was informed during a Monday morning press conference that Jones had been taken into custody after an overnight manhunt undertaken by numerous law enforcement agencies.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan revealed that the three victims of the shooting were second-year student Devin Chandler, third-year student Lavel Davis, and fourth-year student D'Sean Perry, all of which were football players. Two other students were transported to UVA Medical Center to be treated for injuries.
Ryan stated that the shooting, which happened at around 10:30 pm on Sunday evening, occurred in the Culbreath Parking Garage area, on a bus full of students returning from a field trip.
Longo said that Jones has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder, and three counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Before being informed that Jones had been taken into custody, Ryan announced that the shelter-in-place order had been lifted after an "exhaustive" search of the grounds and buildings. Ryan said that all school events and classes for Monday had been canceled, including a scheduled basketball game.
"The bodies of Devin and D’Saun, as President Ryan indicated, were found inside a charter bus, where they had been for the day and joined a school activity, having a meal together and coming back to our grounds and someone amongst them chose to do an act of violence," said Longo.
Longo noted that Jones had been on the Police’s radar since last year over gun-related incidents.
"Mr. Jones came to the attention of the University of Virginia's threat assessment team in the fall of 2022," said Longo. "Fact in 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 to a person that was unaffiliated with the university."
"That reporting person, again unaffiliated with the university, to the best of our knowledge, never saw a 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," Longo continued.
"Mr. Jones also had come to the attention of our threat assessment team because he was involved in a hazing investigation of some sort. I don't know the facts and circumstances of that investigation. I know that it was eventually closed due to witnesses that would not cooperate with the process.
"Through the course of the threat assessment team’s investigation, we learned of a prior criminal incident involving a concealed weapon violation that occurred outside the city of Charlottesville in February of 2021.
"What's interesting about that case is he's required as a student at the University of Virginia to report that and he never did, and so the university has taken appropriate administrative charges through the university's judiciary counseling that matter is still pending adjudication," he added.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
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