Three shot dead at university

A FATAL shooting at a University of Virginia car park killed three people and wounded two others.

Classes at the school were cancelled on Monday, as police hunted for a student suspected of the attack at the Charlottesville campus. University of Virginia President Jim Ryan identified the suspect as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.

In a letter to the university posted on social media, Mr Ryan said the shooting happened around 10.30pm on Sunday.

The university’s emergency management issued an alert on Sunday night notifying the campus community of an “active attacker firearm”.

A Virginia State Police crime scene investigation truck is on the scene of an overnight shooting in Virginia