ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WWBT) – The suspect in the 2022 killing of three University of Virginia football players pleaded guilty Wednesday.
Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and De’Sean Perry were shot and killed on a bus as they returned to grounds from a class field trip.
Two other students were also injured in the shooting.
The suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., was also a student at the university.
Jones Jr. was scheduled to go on trial in January 2025.
WVIR reports Jones pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of:
- Three counts of first-degree murder
- Two counts of aggravated malicious wounding
- Five counts of using a firearm during the commission of a felony.
He’ll be sentenced in February 2025.
The first-degree murder charges and aggravated malicious wounding charges each carry a possible term of 20 years to life.
Earlier this year, UVA reached a $9 million settlement with the families of the victims killed.
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