University of Virginia Shooting: 3 killed, 2 injured; former football player named as suspect
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, authorities confirmed.
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 that plunged the campus into lockdown for nearly half a day, University of Virginia Police Department confirmed on Twitter.
Mr Jones is accused of opening fire on a bus full of students on Sunday night as they arrived back at the parking garage in the main campus along Culbreth Road in Charlottesville. The group was returning from a field trip at the time.
Authorities would not disclose where the suspected gunman had been taken into custody but confirmed Monday that he was not apprehended on the Charlottesville campus.
No motive is known for the attack and it is not clear if the victims were targeted or random.
