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 injured two other students, an attorney representing some victims and their families.
The Charlottesville school will pay $2 million each to the families of the three deceased students, 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 a total of $3 million to the two injured students: Mike Hollins, a fourth-year 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, was responsible for the shooting. It happened when he and others were returning by charter bus to campus after an excursion to see a play in Washington, D.C., authorities said.
The violence that broke out near a parking lot sparked panic and a campus lockdown for 12 hours until the suspect was captured.
Days after the shooting, university leaders requested outside expertise to investigate UVA’s security policies and procedures, its response to the violence and its previous efforts to assess the potential threat posed by the student who was ultimately charged. School officials acknowledged that Jones had previously been on the radar of the university’s threat assessment team.
The murder charges against Jones were upgraded in 2023 from second-degree murder to aggravated murder. His trial is scheduled for January.
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