Three football players were slain in Virginia University shooting
After three current University of Virginia football players were shot and killed at the institution a few hours south of the US capital, a former US college football player was detained and charged with murder on Monday.
Four persons were discovered dead in a different event close to the University of Idaho at the same time as the most recent outbreak of gun violence on campus.
Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a 22-year-old UVA student, was detained on suspicion of carrying out the shooting Sunday night and is now being charged with murder, according to police chief Timothy Longo.
About 120 kilometers southeast of the UVA campus in Charlottesville, Jones was reportedly taken into custody on Monday morning in a suburb of Richmond, according to Henrico County police.
Jim Ryan, the president of UVA, claimed that the shooting occurred on a bus while students were returning from a field trip and that all three of those killed were football players for the school.
Ryan reported that two additional students had been hurt, one of whom was in critical condition.
Ryan declared, “This is a terrible, shocking, and devastating day for our UVA community.” For the victims and their families, “my heart is torn.”
While police looked for Jones, a former UVA football player listed as a first-year running back on the Cavaliers’ 2018 roster, the campus in Charlottesville, some 160 kilometers southwest of Washington, was shut down for several hours.
Longo claimed that following a complaint that Jones was in possession of a gun but that there was no weapon found, Jones had previously come to the notice of the school’s “threat assessment” team.
Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler, and D’Sean Perry, all wide receivers with the Cavaliers, were among the three players who passed away.
In addition to expressing sympathy to the families of the victims of the “senseless shooting,” the White House urged Congress to enact tighter gun control regulations.
The White House stated that “too many families throughout America are carrying the terrible weight of gun violence.” To remove military equipment from American streets, an assault weapons prohibition must be implemented.
Virginia’s US Senator Tim Kaine expressed his “heartbreak” after learning of yet another Virginia neighborhood being destroyed by gun violence.
When a 23-year-old student opened fire on 32 students and faculty members at Virginia Tech in 2007, it became the site of the worst school shooting in American history before he committed suicide.
Police were looking into a different incident where four students were discovered dead on Sunday in a home close to the University of Idaho campus, believed to be “victims of homicide,” more than 2,000 miles to the west in the Rocky Mountain state of Idaho.
Officers responded to a call about an unconscious person in the town of Moscow, close to the university.
According to a statement from the police, “four individuals who were dead were discovered by officers upon arrival.”
The cause of death was not disclosed by the authorities, and no one has been detained in connection with the incident.
University of Idaho president Scott Green released a statement saying, “It is with great regret that I share with you that the university was informed today of the death of four University of Idaho students residing off-campus who were suspected to be victims of homicide.”
As part of a larger wave of gun violence in the United States, where the number of firearms on the market has increased recently, school shootings are an alarmingly frequent occurrence.
In a semi-automatic rifle attack in May at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, shocking the country and reviving calls for gun control.
