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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Manhunt for ‘armed and dangerous’ student as three killed and two injured in University of Virginia shooting

The Daily Progress/AP/UVA Police

The “armed and dangerous” University of Virginia student accused of killing three college football stars in a campus mass shooting has been taken into custody after more than 12 hours on the run.

Christopher Darnell Jones, a 22-year-old student and former football player for the college, was arrested late on Monday morning following a huge manhunt and charged with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in commissom of a felony, University of Virginia Police Department confirmed.

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