UVA suspect Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. stays in custody

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A College of Virginia pupil accused of killing three members of the varsity’s soccer workforce and wounding two different college students in an on-campus capturing shall be held with out bond, a decide ordered Wednesday.

Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. didn’t enter a plea to the quite a few prices he faces throughout his first court docket look. Showing by video hyperlink from jail, Jones advised the decide he plans to rent an lawyer, however the decide appointed a public defender to signify him in the interim.

The decide additionally set a standing listening to within the case for Dec. 8.

College officers and police have mentioned Jones, 22, joined a bunch of about two dozen others on a subject journey Sunday from the Charlottesville campus to see a play within the nation’s capital, about 120 miles (195 kilometers) away. When their bus arrived again on campus, authorities have mentioned Jones opened fireplace, killing Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry and Devin Chandler, and wounding two others, one in every of them additionally a soccer participant.

Jones — who police have mentioned was in a position to flee the capturing scene, setting off a manhunt and 12-hour campus lockdown — faces three counts of second-degree homicide, two counts of malicious wounding and extra gun-related prices.

The violence on the state’s flagship public college has set off days of mourning amongst college students and school, the broader Charlottesville neighborhood and different supporters. Lessons resumed Wednesday, although the varsity introduced it was canceling its last dwelling soccer sport of the season, a Saturday sport in opposition to Coastal Carolina.

No choice has been made but about whether or not UVA will take part in its last sport of the season on Nov. 26 in opposition to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, the college mentioned in a information launch.

Jones has been in custody since he was arrested in suburban Richmond late Monday morning. Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Lawyer James Hingeley is dealing with the case in opposition to him.

College President Jim Ryan mentioned Monday that authorities didn’t have a “full understanding” of the motive behind the capturing. Courtroom paperwork filed thus far within the matter have supplied no further perception.

Jones was a member of the soccer workforce throughout the 2018 season, a one-semester walk-on, based on athletics director Carla Williams.

In interviews, his father has expressed confusion and astonishment and apologized to the victims’ households.

Of the 2 college students who had been hospitalized, one was discharged from the medical middle Tuesday, based on Eric Swensen, a well being system spokesperson.

Relations of Mike Hollins, a working again on the workforce, have mentioned he underwent a second surgical procedure Tuesday.