Virginia football will honor three former players who were killed in a shooting on campus last year in a pregame ceremony ahead of the Cavaliers' home opener next week.
the three football players and injured two others in the shooting on campus last fall. Jones and the victims were on a class field trip to see a play in Washington, D.C., that day, and had just arrived back in campus on a bus when the shooting broke out.in the incident, but he survived. He returned to the field last week in the Cavaliers' season opener against Tennessee, and had three carries and a reception in the 49-13 loss.
Hollins opened up about the incident about a month later. He went into surgery right away, and didn't learn that his three teammates had died until two days later.in December."But I just knew I wasn't going down without a fight. I found a pre-med student, and that was God again. She was there to help me.
The Cavaliers canceled the rest of their season after the shooting last fall. Jones was charged with three counts of second-degree murder, five counts of the use of a firearm in a first felony offense and two counts of malicious wounding. His case is due to go in front of a grand jury next month.
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