Black student snaps at the University of Virginia - kills 3 people
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Gunman Is at Large After Killing 3 at University of Virginia, Police Say
People on the university’s campus in Charlottesville, Va., were ordered to shelter in place. Two people were also wounded in the shooting.
A student at the University of Virginia fatally shot three people and injured two others on campus late Sunday, the authorities said, and the university urged people to remain sheltered in place early Monday as the police continue a search for the gunman.
The student, identified as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., remained at large as of Monday morning. The police warned that he was “armed and dangerous.”
The shooting occurred at the Culbreth Road garage on campus, university officials said.ABC13 WSET
Eva Surovell, a senior and the editor in chief of The Cavalier Daily, the university’s student newspaper, said by phone early Monday that students were sheltering in place across the campus: “People are stuck in the libraries, they’re stuck in academic buildings, they’re stuck in you name it,” she said.
Ms. Surovell, 21, said that when she learned of the shooting, she ran to the scene and later returned to her room at the center of campus. “I’ve been in my room since probably about 3 a.m. and you can hear cop cars, like cop sirens, every 15 or 20 minutes or so,” she said.
The City of Charlottesville and the surrounding Albermarle County canceled classes at their public schools on Monday after the shooting at the University of Virginia.
The City of Charlottesville and the surrounding Albermarle County canceled classes at their public schools on Monday after the shooting at the University of Virginia.
A student gunman was at large after he fatally shot three people and wounded two others at a garage on the University of Virginia campus late Sunday night, the authorities said.
Around 7:15 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, the university again urged people in and around its campus in Charlottesville to remain sheltered in place as the authorities searched for the suspect. The university canceled classes on Monday, as did the City of Charlottesville.
It was not immediately clear if the victims were students.
The university’s office of emergency management said it received reports of shots fired at a garage on Culbreth Road around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. The University of Virginia Police Department identified the gunman as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., who the university president said in an email to the campus was a student at the school.
The university police warned that Mr. Jones was “armed and dangerous.” They said several law enforcement agencies were helping with the search for Mr. Jones, and that the Virginia State police had deployed helicopters as part of the effort.
Earlier on Monday, the university’s president, Jim Ryan, said in a email sent to the university community, “I am heartbroken to report that the shooting has resulted in three fatalities; two additional victims were injured and are receiving medical care. We are working closely with the families of the victims, and we will share additional detail as soon as we are able.”
“This is a message any leader hopes never to have to send,” he added, “and I am devastated that this violence has visited the University of Virginia.”
Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia said on Twitter early Monday that he was praying for the university’s community and reiterated officials’ warning to shelter in place.
Mr. Jones was described by the police as wearing a burgundy jacket, bluejeans, red shoes and possibly driving a black sport-utility vehicle. They urged family and friends of those on campus to call an emergency hotline for more information about the episode.
Around 1:18 a.m., Robyn S. Hadley, the university’s dean of students, sent an email to the student body urging those on campus to “Please, please take the shelter in place commands seriously as the situation remains active.”
A spokesman for the university provided the email sent by the university president, but did not immediately respond to additional questions from The New York Times.
The university’s athletics website listed Mr. Jones as a one-time member of its football team; the website listed him as a freshman member of the team who did not appear in any games in 2018.
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People on the university’s campus in Charlottesville, Va., were ordered to shelter in place. Two people were also wounded in the shooting.
A student at the University of Virginia fatally shot three people and injured two others on campus late Sunday, the authorities said, and the university urged people to remain sheltered in place early Monday as the police continue a search for the gunman.
The student, identified as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., remained at large as of Monday morning. The police warned that he was “armed and dangerous.”
The shooting occurred at the Culbreth Road garage on campus, university officials said.ABC13 WSET
Eva Surovell, a senior and the editor in chief of The Cavalier Daily, the university’s student newspaper, said by phone early Monday that students were sheltering in place across the campus: “People are stuck in the libraries, they’re stuck in academic buildings, they’re stuck in you name it,” she said.
Ms. Surovell, 21, said that when she learned of the shooting, she ran to the scene and later returned to her room at the center of campus. “I’ve been in my room since probably about 3 a.m. and you can hear cop cars, like cop sirens, every 15 or 20 minutes or so,” she said.
The City of Charlottesville and the surrounding Albermarle County canceled classes at their public schools on Monday after the shooting at the University of Virginia.
The City of Charlottesville and the surrounding Albermarle County canceled classes at their public schools on Monday after the shooting at the University of Virginia.
A student gunman was at large after he fatally shot three people and wounded two others at a garage on the University of Virginia campus late Sunday night, the authorities said.
Around 7:15 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, the university again urged people in and around its campus in Charlottesville to remain sheltered in place as the authorities searched for the suspect. The university canceled classes on Monday, as did the City of Charlottesville.
It was not immediately clear if the victims were students.
The university’s office of emergency management said it received reports of shots fired at a garage on Culbreth Road around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. The University of Virginia Police Department identified the gunman as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., who the university president said in an email to the campus was a student at the school.
The university police warned that Mr. Jones was “armed and dangerous.” They said several law enforcement agencies were helping with the search for Mr. Jones, and that the Virginia State police had deployed helicopters as part of the effort.
Earlier on Monday, the university’s president, Jim Ryan, said in a email sent to the university community, “I am heartbroken to report that the shooting has resulted in three fatalities; two additional victims were injured and are receiving medical care. We are working closely with the families of the victims, and we will share additional detail as soon as we are able.”
“This is a message any leader hopes never to have to send,” he added, “and I am devastated that this violence has visited the University of Virginia.”
Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia said on Twitter early Monday that he was praying for the university’s community and reiterated officials’ warning to shelter in place.
Mr. Jones was described by the police as wearing a burgundy jacket, bluejeans, red shoes and possibly driving a black sport-utility vehicle. They urged family and friends of those on campus to call an emergency hotline for more information about the episode.
Around 1:18 a.m., Robyn S. Hadley, the university’s dean of students, sent an email to the student body urging those on campus to “Please, please take the shelter in place commands seriously as the situation remains active.”
A spokesman for the university provided the email sent by the university president, but did not immediately respond to additional questions from The New York Times.
The university’s athletics website listed Mr. Jones as a one-time member of its football team; the website listed him as a freshman member of the team who did not appear in any games in 2018.
University of Virginia Shooting: Suspect in University of Virginia Shooting Is in Custody, Police Say (Published 2022)
A shelter-in-place order for the campus in Charlottesville, Va., was lifted after about 12 hours. Three students were killed and two more wounded in the shooting.
Nope. Two were Black. The shooter and at least one of the victims were on the football team.
Allegedly.
Chris Jones
virginiasports.com
Dude went to the high school 10mins from my house here in Richmond
Played linebacker and running back at Petersburg High School for head coach Michael Scott … earned honorable mention all-conference honors as a senior … spent first three years of high school at Varina High School where he earned honorable mention all-conference as a freshman and second-team accolades as a sophomore and junior … member of the National Honor Society … National Technical Honor Society … president of Key Club … president of Jobs for Virginia Grads Program … named Student of the Year as a freshman and sophomore at Varina
I hate when this happens. He'll get the black treatment in the news, regardless of what led to this. RIP to the departed.
Chris Jones
Dude went to the high school 10mins from my house here in Richmond
Played linebacker and running back at Petersburg High School for head coach Michael Scott … earned honorable mention all-conference honors as a senior … spent first three years of high school at Varina High School where he earned honorable mention all-conference as a freshman and second-team accolades as a sophomore and junior … member of the National Honor Society … National Technical Honor Society … president of Key Club … president of Jobs for Virginia Grads Program … named Student of the Year as a freshman and sophomore at Varina
Yeah, dude had honors and what not. I wonder what prompted it. Random beef or fighting over a girl or what.
This young man murdered other people, at least 2 black BTW, and your primary concern is how he will be portrayed in the media?
Smh...racial idolatry proliferated from both the media and the people has created an animus for human life on a basic level, forget what the person did, did the white/black person kill white/black people and that will determine how we feel about murder? Shit is ridiculously sad.
He has a point. Keep in mind that he's just a suspect.......no one knows the full story yet. Keep in mind that Charlottesville is a southern college town with a rich white university.
BEFORE HE WAS UVA POLICE CHIEF, TIMOTHY LONGO HELMED DNA DRAGNET THAT TARGETED BLACK MEN
A closer examination of a two-decade-old operation in Charlottesville, Virginia, shows that it was larger in scope than previously reported.
"After a serial rapist, who first struck in 1997, brutally assaulted a victim in November 2002, Charlottesville police became increasingly desperate to catch the suspect. They had his DNA but were short on leads, and physical descriptions given by victims varied; they knew only that he was a Black man. So, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo authorized a policy whereby officers could approach Black men that they felt matched the extremely broad description and request DNA samples. Over the next two years, the names of targets were kept in a running master suspect list maintained by the department."
Before He Was UVA Police Chief, Timothy Longo Helmed DNA Dragnet That Targeted Black Men
A closer examination of a two-decade-old operation in Charlottesville, Virginia, shows that it was larger in scope than previously reported.
theintercept.com
I see a possibly successful young man's life come to an end and I see the potentials that are now lost and you don't think that should be discussed? All the media will see is a thug went thug. For us black folks we need to multiply in success rate, not decrease. And I never said it was okay for him to kill anyone.
Damn, do you think he needed an extra couple catches to trigger a NIL bonus and QB said “Fuck dat!”
Asking for friend…
He might as well just surrender cause they gonna find him. But who knows he might off himself before then.
Two of the victims
Damn curious to know what happened. I know alot of UVA alum and from what I been told the school not only recruits alot of blacks, but the school does cater to the needs of african americans, unlike schools like Michigan State.
DC has a large black UVA alumni network because of the amount of scholarship dollars they provide to minorities. This should be interesting....
DC has a large black UVA alumni network because of the amount of scholarship dollars they provide to minorities. This should be interesting....
He clearly was no slouch on/off the field or in the classroom.Chris Jones
Dude went to the high school 10mins from my house here in Richmond
Played linebacker and running back at Petersburg High School for head coach Michael Scott … earned honorable mention all-conference honors as a senior … spent first three years of high school at Varina High School where he earned honorable mention all-conference as a freshman and second-team accolades as a sophomore and junior … member of the National Honor Society … National Technical Honor Society … president of Key Club … president of Jobs for Virginia Grads Program … named Student of the Year as a freshman and sophomore at Varina
For the record, I'm ok with murder. Its part of the natural order of life.
From ants to giraffes, they all fight to the death... but we supposed to love all humans?
Crazy. I was just in the thread where dude killed his girlfriend. Now, I see this.
People is going to people. That’s all I got.
People is going to people. That’s all I got.
CIA is in Langley little over 2 hours from Charlottesville
UVA shooting live updates: Suspect in custody after 3 students killed - The Washington Post
29 mins ago
I keep seeing 'shooting on the bus'.
I thought he shot AT the bus.
But didn't other articles say he had issues with a gun etc. before all this.
So, how he get it on the bus. Well I guess he did.
Anyway, posting below.
Somehow he brought the gun ON the bus.
Father identifies son, Michael Hollins Jr., as one of injured shooting victims
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By Keith L. Alexander
In an interview with The Post on Monday, Michael Hollins Sr. said his son, Michael Hollins Jr., was one of the students injured late Sunday in the campus shooting. His son, 21, and the alleged shooter knew each other because they were football teammates. Hollins is a junior running back for U-Va. The suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., played football his freshman year.
Hollins said he was at work as a city bus inspector in Fairfax, Va., when just before midnight he got an urgent call that his son had been a victim in the shooting.
Hollins hopped in his car and sped to Charlottesville, he said, arriving just before 2 a.m. Monday. His son had been shot in the back, the bullet lodged in his stomach. In the interview, Hollins said his son was in “stable” condition Monday morning and is currently intubated. He said his son, lying in the hospital bed, recognized his voice and squeezed his hand as he stood next to him.
“The doctors said he’s going to recover,” Hollins said. “They said because of his age and physical condition, he’s doing exceptionally well.”
Hollins said his son and other U-Va. students were in Washington on Sunday as part of a class field trip. Hollins said officials told him --
the alleged shooter carried a gun on the bus while on the field trip with the other students, and when they returned to campus, he began firing at his classmates on the bus.
“He waited until they all got back to Charlottesville, and he just shot up the bus,” Hollins said.
Hollins said his son is expected to graduate next month with a degree in entrepreneurship and African American history, but was expected to continue to play football for Virginia, as he worked on obtaining his master’s degree at the school.
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I keep seeing 'shooting on the bus'.
I thought he shot AT the bus.
But didn't other articles say he had issues with a gun etc. before all this.
So, how he get it on the bus. Well I guess he did.
Anyway, posting below.
Somehow he brought the gun ON the bus.
Father identifies son, Michael Hollins Jr., as one of injured shooting victims
Return to menu
By Keith L. Alexander
In an interview with The Post on Monday, Michael Hollins Sr. said his son, Michael Hollins Jr., was one of the students injured late Sunday in the campus shooting. His son, 21, and the alleged shooter knew each other because they were football teammates. Hollins is a junior running back for U-Va. The suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., played football his freshman year.
Hollins said he was at work as a city bus inspector in Fairfax, Va., when just before midnight he got an urgent call that his son had been a victim in the shooting.
Hollins hopped in his car and sped to Charlottesville, he said, arriving just before 2 a.m. Monday. His son had been shot in the back, the bullet lodged in his stomach. In the interview, Hollins said his son was in “stable” condition Monday morning and is currently intubated. He said his son, lying in the hospital bed, recognized his voice and squeezed his hand as he stood next to him.
“The doctors said he’s going to recover,” Hollins said. “They said because of his age and physical condition, he’s doing exceptionally well.”
Hollins said his son and other U-Va. students were in Washington on Sunday as part of a class field trip. Hollins said officials told him --
the alleged shooter carried a gun on the bus while on the field trip with the other students, and when they returned to campus, he began firing at his classmates on the bus.
“He waited until they all got back to Charlottesville, and he just shot up the bus,” Hollins said.
Hollins said his son is expected to graduate next month with a degree in entrepreneurship and African American history, but was expected to continue to play football for Virginia, as he worked on obtaining his master’s degree at the school.
He was a walk-on
I wouldnt be surprised if this was revenge for disrespect
Walk-ons get talked down on a lot
I wouldnt be surprised if this was revenge for disrespect
Walk-ons get talked down on a lot
This is what I'm suspecting. Dude might have snapped over some past hazing shit.
Our people don't go shooting up places for no reason like cacs do. Sad shit all around.
Yeah, my cousin is a UVA grad and lived in DC for the longest. Big community up there.
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