The 22-year-old University of Virginia student accused of gunning down three classmates allegedly shot one of the victims as he slept, according to prosecutors.
Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, is expected to face a judge on multiple murder charges and two counts of malicious wounding.allegedly shot one of the victims as he slept, according to prosecutors.
The suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., was taken into custody Monday morning following an overnight manhunt. Jones did not enter a plea at his first court appearance Wednesday. Jones, who previously worked at the Charlottesville Boys and Girls Club and at a local hospital, was given a temporary, court-appointed attorney."I was scared that with all the shots that were fired, he had shot everyone on the bus," Lynch told ABC News. "So I thought he was going to shoot me, too."
In 2018, Jones was a running back for the University of Virginia's football team, the Virginia Cavaliers, though he never played in a game. Virginia Cavaliers Athletics Director Carla Williams said Jones was a student beginning in 2018 and was a walk-on for one semester. She said "there was no overlap" on the team between Jones and the victims, adding that she doesn't "know if there was any interaction outside of the class.
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