Former Virginia football player pleads guilty to murdering his teammates
Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. a former University of Virginia football player pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder on Wednesday.
The former football player killed three of his teammates and wounded two others back in 2022.
Jones Jr. also pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated malicious wounding and five counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Police said that Jones opened fire on a bus after he and others were on a class field trip to see a play in Washington, D.C., in November 2022. The bus had just arrived back on campus after the field trip when the shooting broke out.
Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry were all killed in the shooting. Running back Mike Hollins was also shot, and a fifth man named Marlee Morgan, was also injured.
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