CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — 3 other people were killed and two others had been wounded in a capturing at a parking storage on the College of Virginia, consistent with the varsity’s president, and police searched Monday for a scholar who was once a suspect.
The capturing round 10:30 p.m. Sunday “ended in 3 fatalities; two further sufferers had been injured and are receiving hospital therapy,” President Jim Ryan mentioned in a letter to the college neighborhood posted on social media. He recognized the suspect as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.
The college’s emergency control issued an alert on Sunday night time notifying the campus neighborhood of an “energetic attacker firearm.” The message warned scholars to refuge in position following a file of pictures fired on Culbreth Highway at the northern outskirts of campus. Categories had been canceled Monday.
The UVA Police Division posted a understand on-line announcing more than one police businesses together with the state police had been on the lookout for a suspect who was once regarded as “armed and threatening.”
In his letter to campus, the college president mentioned Jones was once suspected to have dedicated the capturing. The campus emergency control twitter account mentioned that he was once believed to be dressed in blue denims and a burgundy jacket and riding a black SUV with Virginia tags.
The college’s emergency control Twitter account mentioned in a while earlier than 7 a.m. that “a whole seek on and round UVA Grounds” via regulation enforcement was once underway and instructed other people on campus to stay sheltered.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives mentioned brokers had been responding to the campus to help within the investigation.
Ryan’s letter showed that the suspect, who he mentioned was once a scholar, was once nonetheless at massive Monday morning.
“This can be a message any chief hopes by no means to must ship, and I’m devastated that this violence has visited the College of Virginia,” Ryan wrote. “This can be a hectic incident for everybody in our neighborhood.”
