Hollins was recovering from a second surgery to have a bullet removed, and Morgan was released from the hospital, according to Fox News. “We are all grieving and sad and devastated by these events in our community, and all of us in this community care for the victims’ families and wish for the speedy recovery of those, who are being treated at the hospital, and who are wounded, and wish there can be comfort for the family members of the victims who died in this terrible tragedy,” Hingeley said. Jones had been convicted of a concealed weapons offense last year and also received a suspended sentence for property damage and reckless driving in his hometown of Petersburg, Va, Hingeley also told reporters. Michael Hollins, who also played football for the Virginia Cavaliers, and Marlee Morgan, a sophomore at the university, were injured, officials said. The former university football player had just returned from seeing a play with his victims on a school field trip to Washington, DC when he opened fire on the bus that had just pulled into UVA’s Charlottesville campus, officials said. The suspect and the victims had just taken a bus back from Washington, DC, where they had seen a play, when shots rang out. Jones told the court he worked eight hours a week at the Charlottesville Boys and Girls Club, earning $360 every other week. Judge Andrew Sneathern ordered him held without bail until he could secure legal representation and enter a plea. He told the court he wanted his own lawyer, not a court-appointed public defender and did not enter a plea to three counts of second-degree murder, two counts of malicious shooting with the intent to maim, disfigure, disable, or kill and five counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony, explaining to the court he was still looking for legal representation. The stonefaced mass murder suspect, appeared in the Albemarle General District Court virtually Wednesday from the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, wearing a black and white jumpsuit over a white undershirt.
allegedly killed three fellow students and injured two others after a field trip Sunday. He and another victim, D’Sean Perry, were pronounced dead on the bus, while the third victim, Lavel Davis Jr., died at the hospital.įellow students saw “Chris point the gun at Devin Chandler and saw him shoot while he slept and slumped to the floor,” Hingeley said. James Hingeley, arguing for the Commonwealth of Virginia, said one of the slain men, Devin Chandler, was shot as he napped.
Witnesses said Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, appeared to target his victims in the Sunday slaughter, and was not “randomly shooting,” according to prosecutors. The University of Virginia student who allegedly killed three football players and gunned down two other classmates after a field trip Sunday shot one of the victims while he was sleeping in a “targeted” massacre, prosecutors argued in court Wednesday.
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