A former University of Virginia student has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting three football players and wounding two other students in an attack on the campus in 2022. Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. has entered his plea Wednesday in a circuit court in Charlottesville. He pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and other charges.
Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 25, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated malicious wounding and five counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. A four-day sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin Feb. 4 in Albemarle County Circuit Court.
Authorities had not released a motive. Jones was a former member of the university’s football team at the time of the shooting. A witness told police that he had targeted specific victims. Kimberly Wald said at the time that the school would pay $2 million each to the families of the three students who died, the maximum allowable under Virginia law. The school would also pay $3 million total to the two students who were wounded.
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