Three days after an on-campus taking pictures took the lives of three Virginia soccer gamers, the college canceled the Cavaliers’ remaining house sport of the season, which might’ve been Saturday towards nationally-ranked Coastal Carolina. Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry, and Devin Chandler have been the three killed within the mass taking pictures, with two others being wounded. One is an unidentified soccer participant.
The cancellation comes inside hours of when the taking pictures’s suspect, 22-year-old former UVA soccer participant Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., is due in courtroom for his first listening to. Native police and campus management mentioned Jones was on a faculty subject journey Sunday night to see a play in Washington D.C., about two hours north of Charlottesville, Va. When the bus returned to campus, police mentioned Jones began taking pictures. Jones allegedly fled the scene and wasn’t taken into police custody till Monday morning.
Jones will face three counts of second-degree homicide, two counts of malicious wounding, and extra costs. Lessons at Virginia additionally resumed on Wednesday, with the Cavaliers presently scheduled to play their remaining sport of the season subsequent Saturday on the street towards Virginia Tech. Virginia is 3-7 and never eligible for bowl consideration. Jones was a one-semester walk-on at Virginia in 2018 and not one of the taking pictures’s victims performed for the Cavaliers at the moment.
