UVA agreed to $9M settlement after acknowledging Jones was on threat-assessment team radar
Former University of Virginia (UVA) student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., who shot three of the school’s football players to death in 2022, was sentenced to the maximum of five life terms, plus 23 years, on gun charges Friday.
Jones reportedly apologized to the victims’ families at the courthouse, saying, “I’m sorry. I caused so much pain,” according to Charlottesville-based outlet Cville Right Now.
Last year, Jones pleaded guilty to the murder of D’Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler, two counts of aggravated malicious wounding and five counts of use of a gun in the commission of a felony. A fourth team member, Mike Hollins, and another student, Marlee Morgan, sustained injuries.