Shooting at the University of Virginia leaves three dead, two injured
Police said the suspect is a Black man wearing a burgundy jacket or hoodie, with blue jeans and red shoes, was at large and was considered armed and dangerous. They said he may be driving a black SUV with Virginia plates., was a freshman on the football team in 2018 but did not appear in any games. He had previously played linebacker and running back at Petersburg High School in Virginia. Before that, he spent three years at Varina High School, where he was an accomplished player.
In a message that followed about 1:15 a.m., Vice President and Dean of Students Robyn S. Hadley exhorted the community: “Please, please take the shelter in place commands seriously as the situation remains active.” Later, the emergency management office said multiple police agencies were “actively searching for the suspect.”“The second we all got that message that there was an active shooter, my phone flooded with messages,” said Eva Surovell, 21, of Alexandria, Va.
Danielle Werchowsky of Arlington, whose son is a student at U-Va said “UVA parents are glued to our social media right now. … Parents are all on edge.” She said she urged her son in a phone call to turn off the lights in his apartment and stay away from windows. Culbreth Road and the garage, where shots were heard, are about half a mile north of the lawn and the Rotunda and near other campus buildings.This is not the first time this year that a shooting has rocked a college campus in Virginia. In February, two campus police officers at Bridgewater College wereafter they were checking out a report of a “suspicious man” near a classroom building. The suspect linked to their deaths was a former student.
Also in February, a late-night shooting at a hookah lounge near the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg left one person dead and four injured, police said. In 2007, Virginia Tech experienced one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history when an undergraduate student killed 32 people, and himself, on April 16 of that year.
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