Police on Monday arrested a former college football player from the University of Virginia suspected of killing three former teammates a few hours south of the US capital. On Sunday (13), four people were found dead near the University of Idaho.
Police Chief Timothy Longo said at a news conference that 22-year-old University of Virginia (UVA) student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the shooting on Sunday night.
“I have no information on how he was arrested,” Longo said.
The students were shot on a bus on their way back from a school trip, according to UVA President Jim Ryan, who said the three victims were members of the college’s soccer team.
Ryan said two other students were also injured. One of them was in critical condition.
The campus in Charlottesville, Virginia, about 100 miles southwest of Washington, was shut down as helicopters and police searched for Jones.
The stay-in-place order was lifted hours later, but “a large police presence will remain in the area,” the UVA’s Office of Emergency Management tweeted.
“This is a traumatic event for everyone in our community and we have canceled classes for today,” Ryan said in a statement.
The three victims were identified as Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler, and D’Sean Perry.
In April 2007, tragedy had already gripped Virginia: a 23-year-old student shot and killed 32 students and faculty on the Virginia Tech University campus in Blacksburg before committing suicide.
After Sunday’s UVA attack, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia said he was “heartbroken to learn that another Virginia community was devastated by gun violence.”
School shootings are commonplace in the United States, rekindling the debate over better firearms surveillance every time.
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A second tragedy has affected the University of Idaho in the western state of the same name. “murder victims”.
Police said in a statement that authorities “found four people dead”.
“I am deeply saddened to share with you the information regarding the deaths of four University of Idaho students, who were reported to the university today and who were allegedly victims of off-campus ‘murder’,” University of Idaho President Scott Green said in a statement. separate statement.
He added that police do not think the situation poses a “direct threat”.
Oakland University, near Detroit, Michigan (Northern United States), also asked its students and staff Monday morning not to go to the campus where “police continues to look for two gunmen” who were seen early in the morning.
source: Noticias
