University of Virginia Shooting: 3 killed, 2 injured; former football player named as suspect
University of Virginia officials had received a warning that Christopher Darnell Jones was in possession of a firearm not long before he allegedly shot dead three fellow students and wounded two others on the college campus.
Police revealed in a press conference on Monday that the college had been contacted by an individual in the fall saying that the 22-year-old had made comments about having a gun.
Mr Jones is now charged with three counts of murder after he allegedly opened fire on a bus full of students returning from a field trip on Sunday night.
Three football players on the university team – D’Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr, and Devin Chandler – were killed in the attack.
The suspect’s father, Christopher Jones Sr, told NBC 12 that he noticed his son’s behaviour change during a recent call.
“He said some people were picking on him or whatever, he didn’t know how to handle it and I told him just go to school, don’t pay it any mind” he said. “He was really paranoid when I talked to him about something, but he wouldn’t tell me everything. He was a very sensitive young man.”
