Details are emerging on the Sunday night shooting on Grounds at the University of Virginia, and what we know is that three members of the UVA Football team are dead, and it appears that two other football players were also wounded.
Family members have confirmed on social media the deaths of Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry, two football student-athletes at UVA.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan confirmed in an 11 a.m. press conference that Davis and Perry had passed, and the identity of the third victim, Devin Chandler.
There were also two other students who were wounded, and their identities are being widely shared on social media, but there is no confirmation at this time, so we’re going to hold off on the reporting.
Ryan said one of the wounded is in good condition, and that the other is in critical condition.
The shooting occurred at 10:30 p.m. Sunday at a parking garage on Culbreth Road.
The student-athletes had been on a field trip with other students in the drama department on Sunday.
UVA Police Chief Tim Longo said the shooting occurred on the bus that had transported the group.
The suspect in the shootings is a former UVA football player, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., is in custody, Longo said at an 11 a.m. press conference.
Jones was a member of the football program for one year, in 2018.
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