2022 University of Virginia shooting | |
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Location | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
Date | November 13, 2022 c. 10:30 p.m. (EST) |
Target | UVA football players and another student |
Attack type | School shooting, mass shooting |
Weapons | Handgun |
Deaths | 3 |
Injured | 2 |
Accused | Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. |
Charges |
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On the night of November 13, 2022, a mass shooting took place at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which three people were killed and two others were injured.[1][2] Four of the victims, including the three who died, were members of the UVA football team.[3] The suspect, 22-year-old Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., was later taken into custody and charged with three counts of second-degree murder, as well as three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony.[4]
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