Virginia-Coastal Carolina game canceled after shooting

Saturday’s sport between Virginia and Coastal Carolina has been canceled following the taking pictures of 5 college students on Virginia’s campus Sunday night time, the Cavaliers introduced Wednesday. The taking pictures resulted within the deaths of three members of the UVa soccer group — receivers Devin Chandler and Lavel Davis and linebacker D’Sean Perry.

The sport was slated to be Virginia’s remaining house sport of the 2022 season. A choice on whether or not Virginia will take part in its regular-season finale towards Virginia Tech in Blacksburg on Nov. 26 has not been made.

“As a lot as we love sport day and the spirit it brings, there’s a time when the sanctity of life and sustaining of a neighborhood take priority. That is a kind of instances,” Matt Hogue, Coastal Carolina’s athletic director, mentioned in an announcement. “We totally assist the choice and can proceed providing our help and contribute nonetheless we will towards the therapeutic of our associates and colleagues at UVa.”

Sunday’s taking pictures occurred on a bus full of scholars, together with Chandler, Davis and Perry, getting back from a area journey to Washington, D.C., to see a play. Virginia athletic director Carla Williams mentioned Tuesday that she had no particulars on what led to the incident.

Soccer coach Tony Elliott mentioned Tuesday that he didn’t have sufficient data to supply an replace on Mike Hollins, one other soccer participant who was shot and is in a hospital. One other pupil, whose title has not been launched by the college, was additionally taken to a hospital with accidents.

“It feels prefer it’s a nightmare to be sincere with you, and I’m prepared for any person to pinch me and wake me up and say that this didn’t occur,” Elliott mentioned at a information convention. “It’s been an extended … I don’t understand how lengthy it’s been because it occurred. The minutes can’t go by quick sufficient.”

Elliott added that this system has tried to “transition from the ache to discovering a bit little bit of pleasure in celebrating the lives of Lavel, D’Sean and Devin.”

“Nothing can put together you for this example, and we simply wish to be there to assist the blokes,” he mentioned. “I believe it’s vital that all of us grieve. These are excellent younger males that we don’t perceive why they’re gone so early.”

Police arrested Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., who was a one-semester walk-on on the 2018 soccer group, in reference to the taking pictures. He has been charged with three counts of second-degree homicide in addition to three counts of utilizing a handgun within the fee of a felony. The Richmond Instances-Dispatch reported Tuesday that Jones has additionally been charged with two counts of malicious wounding.

On Wednesday, a decide ordered Jones to be held with out bond and set a standing listening to within the case for Dec. 8. Jones, who appeared earlier than the decide by way of a video hyperlink from jail, didn’t enter a plea to his fees, in keeping with the Related Press.

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