Police on Monday arrested a student and former college football player suspected of killing three former teammates at the University of Virginia on the east coast of the United States.
In another incident of violence, the University of Idaho in the west of the country also mourned after four students were found dead in a house near campus.
Virginia Police Chief Timothy Longo said at a news conference that University of Virginia (UVA) student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, was arrested on suspicion of being the author of the Sunday night shootings.
“I have no information on how he was detained,” Longo said.
According to UVA President Jim Ryan, gunfights took place on a bus where students who said the three were dead were on the football team were returning from a school trip.
They were identified as Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler, and D’Sean Perry. Ryan said two more students were injured, one seriously.
The UVA campus in Charlottesville, about 100 miles southwest of Washington, was cordoned off as helicopters and police searched for Jones. Hours later, the campus was evacuated, but the UVA stated that a “large police presence” would be maintained.
“This was a traumatic event for everyone in our community and today’s classes have been cancelled,” Ryan said in a statement, adding that psychological support will be provided to students and faculty.
In April 2007, a student murdered 32 people on the Virginia Tech University campus in Blacksburg before committing suicide.
Tim Kaine, a Democratic senator from that east coast state, said in a tweet on Monday that he was “deeply moved to learn that more Virginians are being exterminated by gun violence.”
“Murder Victims” in Idaho
More than 2,000 miles to the west, in the Rocky Mountains, police are investigating the deaths of four students whose bodies were found Sunday in a home near the University of Idaho campus. They are believed to be “victims of murder”.
Police responded to a call in the city of Moscow about a person being found unconscious near the University. “Agents found four dead upon arrival,” police said in a statement. Said. Authorities did not disclose other details such as the cause of death.
“It is with deep sadness that I share with the University the death of four University of Idaho students who are believed to be victims of murder living off campus today,” said University of Idaho President Scott Green. , in a statement.
Armed conflicts and Weapons
Oakland University, near Detroit, in northern Michigan, has asked its students and staff not to go to campus on Monday, as “police are still looking for two gunmen,” seen in the early morning. They then gave the green light: “everything is clean”.
The Detroit Free Press reported that the incident began when suspects driving a stolen vehicle crashed on an interstate highway and rushed to the Oakland campus to avoid arrest.
In the United States, where the number of firearms has increased rapidly in recent years, gun attacks are common in schools and universities.
In May, an 18-year-old gunman raided Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, with a semi-automatic rifle, killing 19 students and two teachers in an attack that shook the country and renewed calls for gun reform.
source: Noticias
