Three football players killed in US college shooting
Washington, US - A former US college football player was arrested on Monday and charged
with murder after three members of the current University of Virginia team were shot dead at the school a few hours south of the US capital.
The latest outburst of campus gun violence came as four people were found dead in a separate incident near the University of Idaho. Police chief Timothy Longo told a news conference that a 22-year-old UVA student,
Christopher Darnell Jones Jr, had been taken into custody on suspicion of carrying out the shooting on Sunday night and faces murder charges.
Police in Henrico County said Jones was arrested ‘without incident’ on Monday morning in a suburb of Richmond, about 75 miles (120km) southeast of the UVA campus in Charlottesville.
The shooting took place on a bus while students were returning from a field trip, according to
UVA president Jim Ryan, who said all three of those who died were members of the school’s football team.
Two other students were wounded, Ryan said, and one of them was in critical condition.
“This is a sad, shocking and tragic day for our UVA commu
nity,” Ryan said. “My heart is broken for the victims and their families.”