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.
US college shooting results in the deaths of three football players.
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.
Jones was reportedly taken into custody “without incident” on Monday morning in a Richmond suburb, roughly 120 kilometres (75 miles) southeast of the UVA campus in Charlottesville.
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.”
For several hours, the campus in Charlottesville, roughly 100 miles (160 kilometres) southwest of Washington, was shut down while police looked for Jones, a former UVA football player listed as a first-year running back on the Cavaliers’ 2018 roster.
US college shooting results in the deaths of three football players.
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 perished.
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.
Tim Kaine, a US senator from Virginia, was “heartbroken” when he heard that gun violence had destroyed yet another neighborhood in Virginia.
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 massacre in American history before he committed suicide.
US college shooting results in the deaths of three football players.
Police in the Rocky Mountain state of Idaho, more than 2,000 miles to the west, was looking into a different incident in which four students were discovered dead on Sunday in a house close to the University of Idaho campus and were thought to be “victims of homicide.”
Officers responded to a call regarding an unconscious person in the town of Moscow, close to the university.
According to a statement from the police, “four individuals who were deceased were located by authorities upon arrival.”
The reason for death was not disclosed by the authorities, and no one has been detained in connection with the case.
US college shooting results in the deaths of three football players.
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 U.S., where the number of guns on the market has grown in recent years, school shootings happen all too often.
An 18-year-old gunman opened fire inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 students and two teachers in an act that horrified the country and sparked new calls for gun control.
