Charlotte, Virginia (AP)
On Wednesday, a former student of the University of Virginia entered a guilty plea to the 2022 shooting deaths of three football players and the injuring of two other students on the Charlottesville campus.
The 25-year-old Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. entered a guilty plea to five charges of using a firearm in the commission of a felony, two counts of aggravated malicious wounding, and three counts of first-degree murder. Albemarle County Circuit Court will begin a four-day sentence hearing on February 4.
When Jones and other students returned to campus after seeing a play and dining together in Washington, D.C., authorities said he opened fire on a charter bus.
No motive had been disclosed by the authorities. At the time of the shooting, Jones was a former player for the university’s football team. Police were informed by a witness that he had singled out particular victims.
Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler, and D Sean Perry, three football players, were slain, while Mike Hollins, a fourth team member, and another student, Marlee Morgan, were injured.
The university was placed under lockdown for 12 hours until the suspect was apprehended after a shooting broke out close to a parking garage, causing fear. His trial had been set for January on allegations of murder and other offenses.
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