Virginia cancels football game against Coastal Carolina after deadly shooting

The College of Virginia has canceled the soccer program’s Saturday house recreation in opposition to Coastal Carolina, the athletics division introduced Wednesday morning, after a taking pictures left three soccer gamers useless and two different college students injured. 

Former Virginia soccer participant Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, was arrested following a 12-hour manhunt and is accused of killing three members of the soccer group — Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry — after a taking pictures on a bus Sunday that had simply returned to campus from a area journey to Washington. 

Saturday’s matchup was set to be the Cavaliers’ last house recreation of the season. The college has not but determined if the soccer group will play its final recreation at Virginia Tech on Nov. 26. 

(Left to right) Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D'Sean Perry were the victims.
(Left to proper) Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry had been the victims.
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College of Virginia homicide suspect Christopher Jones.
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“It feels prefer it’s a nightmare, to be sincere with you, and I’m prepared for any person to pinch me and wake me up and say that this didn’t occur,” Virginia soccer coach Tony Elliott advised reporters on Tuesday. 

Jones, who made his first court docket look on Wednesday however was not arraigned, is going through three second-degree homicide expenses, together with two counts of malicious wounding of the 2 surviving victims: soccer participant Michael Hollins and faculty sophomore Marlee Morgan. Hollins was in essential situation however is bettering after a second surgical procedure, a household consultant advised WDBJ-TV on Tuesday. 

Jones was a member of the Virginia soccer group in 2018 however didn't seem in any video games and hadn’t been a part of this system for greater than a yr. 

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Virginia football coach Tony Elliott during a press conference on Nov. 16, 2022.

Virginia soccer coach Tony Elliott throughout a press convention on Nov. 16, 2022.
Virginia football coach Tony Elliott (r.) speaks alongside athletic director Carla Williams during a press conference on Nov. 15, 2022.

Virginia soccer coach Tony Elliott (r.) speaks alongside athletic director Carla Williams throughout a press convention on Nov. 15, 2022.

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A bus idles behind police tape during an active shooter situation at the University of Virginia
A bus idles behind police tape throughout an energetic shooter scenario on the College of Virginia
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His grandmother, Mary Eliza Jones, advised The Submit on Tuesday “issues weren’t going properly” on the faculty for her grandson, including, “I do know he had a downfall.” 

His father, Christopher Darnell Jones Sr., beforehand advised NBC 12 that folks had been “choosing on” his son, who he mentioned “didn’t know easy methods to deal with it.”

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