Univeristy of Virginia shooting

November 14, 2022

Gunman Is at Large After Killing 3 at University of Virginia, Police Say

People on the university’s campus in Charlottesville, Va., were ordered to shelter in place. Two people were also wounded in the shooting.

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A shooting on the University of Virginia campus late Sunday left three people dead.Credit...Mike Kropf/The Daily Progress, via Associated Press

1 hour ago

The New York Times

Here’s what to know about the shooting in Charlottesville.

A student gunman was at large after he fatally shot three people and wounded two others at a garage on the University of Virginia campus late Sunday night, the authorities said.

For more than nine hours stretching into Monday morning, the university urged people in and around its campus in Charlottesville to remain sheltered in place as the authorities searched for the suspect. The university canceled classes on Monday.

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49 minutes ago

The New York Times

The gunman was identified as a student at the university.

The University of Virginia Police Department identified the gunman, who remained at large as of Monday morning, as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., who university officials said was a student at the school.

The police described him as “armed and dangerous” and warned people not to approach him.

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1 hour ago

Derrick Bryson Taylor

‘People are stuck in the libraries’: A student describes a campus sheltering in place.

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The shooting occurred at the Culbreth Road garage on campus, university officials said.Credit...ABC13 WSET

Eva Surovell, a senior and the editor in chief of The Cavalier Daily, the university’s student newspaper, said by phone early Monday that students were sheltering in place across the campus: “People are stuck in the libraries, they’re stuck in academic buildings, they’re stuck in you name it,” she said.

Ms. Surovell, 21, said that when she learned of the shooting, she ran to the scene and later returned to her room at the center of campus. “I’ve been in my room since probably about 3 a.m. and you can hear cop cars, like cop sirens, every 15 or 20 minutes or so,” she said.

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1 hour ago

Chris Stanford

The City of Charlottesville and the surrounding Albemarle County canceled classes at their public schools on Monday after the shooting at the University of Virginia.