UVA to pay $9 million to families of football players killed in 2022 campus shooting
UVA Shooting: Classes canceled Tuesday; suspect due in court
Classes at the University of Virginia were canceled Tuesday as mourners left flowers and candles outside Scott Stadium to remember the three football players who were gunned down Sunday night in a brutal attack that sent shockwaves across the campus.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two students, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families said Friday.
The school in Charlottesville will pay $2 million each to the families of the three students who died, said Kimberly Wald, an attorney with the Miami-based Haggard Law firm, which represents the estate of D’Sean Perry. The other two students who died were Devin Chandler and Lavel Davis Jr.
Wald said the university will pay $3 total to the two students who were wounded Mike Hollins, a fourth member of the football team, and Marlee Morgan.
Police said Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a UVA student and former member of the school’s football team, carried out the shooting. It occurred when he and others had returned by charter bus to campus from a field trip to see a play in Washington, authorities said.
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The violence that erupted near a parking garage set off panic and a 12-hour lockdown of the campus until the suspect was captured.
Within days of the shooting, university leaders asked for an outside review to investigate UVA’s safety policies and procedures, its response to the violence and its prior efforts to assess the potential threat of the student who was eventually charged. School officials acknowledged he previously had been on the radar of the university’s threat-assessment team.
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Virginia running back Mike Hollins knows he will never be the same, and admits that the position of football on his priorities list "has shrunk." He still can’t wait to run onto the field with his Cavaliers brothers for their opener this season.
Murder charges against Jones were upgraded in 2023 from second-degree murder to aggravated murder. His trial is scheduled for January.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.