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Can't trust blacks with guns, especially radical leftist blacks.

The student accused of killing three University of Virginia
football players after a school field trip was denied bail
Wednesday during a court hearing in Charlottesville.

According to a witness, suspect Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.
shot one of the players, Devin Chandler, while he was sleeping,
the Albemarle County prosecutor said. Fellow UVA Cavaliers Lavel
Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry were also killed.

Wednesday’s hearing also revealed that Jones was charged and
convicted of a reckless driving and hit and run in 2021 and had
a concealed weapons charge the same year. He received suspended
sentences for all of the offenses.

Jones remains in custody in Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional
Jail, according to online records. He was assigned a public
defender until his next hearing in December – a status hearing
that will discuss whether Jones has retained private counsel,
Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Attorney James Hingeley said.

Jones was on a field trip Sunday with fellow UVA students to see
a play in Washington, DC, a university spokesperson said.

When the bus returned to the Charlottesville campus, authorities
said, the 22-year-old opened fire on the bus, killing Chandler,
Davis and Perry.

Jones faces three charges of second-degree murder and three
counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony, UVA
Police Chief Timothy Longo Sr. said.

He also faces two counts of malicious wounding, each accompanied
by a firearm charge. Two others were injured in the shooting,
Hingeley said.

The prosecutor identified the injured as Marlee Morgan and
Michael Hollins.

In an emailed statement, UVA Health spokesperson Eric Swensen
indicated, without naming anyone, that one of the injured
remains in the hospital in fair condition.

Hollins, a junior running back on the university’s football
team, was intubated but stable Tuesday morning, his family said.
On Wednesday, the family said in a statement he underwent two
successful surgeries in the last 48 hours.

“As Mike starts down the path toward healing– physically,
emotionally and spiritually– the process will take time,” a
statement from the family read. “We ask that you respect his
privacy and continue giving him space to mend.”

CNN reached out to the family of Marlee Morgan.

‘We thought he was going to shoot everyone on the bus’
UVA student Ryan Lynch told CNN affiliate KYW-TV she was on the
bus where the shooting took place and saw Jones push one of the
victims.

“Chris got up and pushed Lavel,” Lynch said. “After he pushed
him, he was like ‘You guys are always messing with me.’ Said
something weird like that, but it was very bizarre because they
didn’t talk to him the whole trip.”

Then gunfire erupted.

“They just kept coming, more and more gunshots,” Lynch told KYW.
“We thought he was going to shoot everyone on the bus.”

But “the shooter just kind of walked or, like, skipped off the
bus,” Lynch said.

Suspect bought 2 guns this year, shop owner says
Jones bought two guns, a semiautomatic rifle and a pistol, in
separate purchases this year, according to the owner of Dance’s
Sporting Goods in Colonial Heights.

But Jones also had twice unsuccessfully to buy a firearm there,
Marlon Dance told CNN in an email. In 2018 he was younger than
the legal age (21) to buy a handgun and was denied a purchase.
Three years later he tried to buy a rifle, but failed a
background check, according to Dance.

In an email to CNN, Virginia State Police Spokesperson Corinne
Geller said an investigation into the attempted purchase on July
8, 2021 revealed that the state police firearms transaction
center denied Jones’ request based on an ongoing legal matter.

“The pending charge was reduced to a misdemeanor by the court in
October 2021, thereby removing the prohibition against future
purchases,” Geller said.

CNN has reached out to University of Virginia Police for comment
on the shooting investigation and the gun used but has not heard
back.

The rest of the football season is in limbo
UVA’s scheduled game against Coastal Carolina on Saturday has
been canceled, the university’s athletics department announced
Wednesday.

“The game would have been Virginia’s final home game of the 2022
season,” a statement from the athletics department said.

“A decision if Virginia will participate in its final game of
the season, a Nov. 26 (Saturday) date against Virginia Tech in
Blacksburg, has not been made at this time.”

Meanwhile, the Atlantic Coast Conference released guidance
Wednesday describing how the rest of the conference will support
UVA going forward.

“The ACC is a family and when one member of our family hurts, we
all hurt,” said Jim Phillips, ACC commissioner, in a statement.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with all of those impacted and we
will continue to support UVA in any way possible during this
difficult time.”

The ACC produced UVA helmet decals that will be worn by every
conference school, and a moment of silence will be observed at
all ACC home football games this upcoming weekend, according to
a statement from the conference.

The ACC has also produced UVA strong graphics for conference
schools to use on social and digital media.

Jones was subject of a gun-related probe
Prior to Sunday’s shooting, Jones was the subject of a pending
case with the university’s judicial council as Sunday’s shooting
unfolded, officials said.

“On September 15, in the context of reviewing a potential hazing
issue, UVA Student Affairs heard from a student that Mr. Jones
made a comment to him about possessing a gun,” said Brian Coy,
the university spokesperson.

That person “did not see Mr. Jones in possession of a gun,” and
the “comment about owning a gun was not made in conjunction with
a threat,” Coy said.

“In the course of their investigation, University officials
spoke with Mr. Jones’ roommate, who gave no indication of the
presence of any weapons. In the course of their investigation,
University officials discovered that Mr. Jones previously had
been tried and convicted of a misdemeanor concealed weapons
violation in 2021, for which he received a 12-month suspended
sentence and a small fine.”

Coy said throughout the investigation “Mr. Jones repeatedly
refused to cooperate with University officials who were seeking
additional information about the claims that he had a firearm
and about his failure to disclose the previous misdemeanor
conviction.”

“The Threat Assessment Team escalated his case for disciplinary
action” on October 27, Coy said.

The school’s judicial council took over the case, and the
results are pending, Longo, the school’s police chief, said.

Jones was also involved in a hazing investigation on campus that
was closed because witnesses would not cooperate, Longo said.

Jones is listed on UVA’s athletics website as a football player
in 2018 who, as a freshman, did not participate in any games. A
UVA spokesperson told CNN Jones had a pre-existing injury that
prevented him from playing on the football team in 2018.

Jones went through medical treatment and rehabilitation during
his time with the team and was only a member of the team for one
season, the spokesperson says.

“What I do know is the young man was a student beginning in 2018
and was a walk-on for one semester with our football program,”
Williams said Tuesday.

‘We’re going to celebrate their lives’
On Tuesday, UVA football head coach Tony Elliott spoke publicly
for the first time since the shooting. He described the days
following the attack as a nightmare.

“I’m ready for somebody to pinch me and wake me up and say this
didn’t happen,” Elliott said, adding that Tuesday “was much
better, we were able to transition from the pain to finding a
little bit of joy in celebrating the lives of Lavel, D’Sean and
Devin.”

The deaths of players Chandler, Davis Jr. and Perry left three
enormous holes on a team that felt more like family than
anything, the coach said. He went on to describe them, calling
Chandler “the life of the party,” Davis “the big man on campus”
and Perry “the quiet guy everyone wanted to know about.”

Elliott commended the strength of his team and staff for coming
together and being able to process the shooting. Elliott said
the team has inspired him to keep pushing forward. At the same
time, he said staff has made it their mission to ensure the team
had all the resources they need and that no one went into
isolation.

“The message to the team is we’re going to celebrate their lives
going forward and the impact that they’ve made thus far and the
legacy that they’re going to be a part of helping us establish
going forward,” Elliott said.

<https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/us/university-of-virginia- shooting-wednesday/index.html>

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