A little over two years after the deaths of three Virginia football players and wounding of another in a tragic shooting, prosecutors have obtained a guilty plea in the case.
Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.—a 25-year-old former Cavaliers football player—pleaded guilty Wednesday to 10 charges via the AP: two counts of aggravated malicious wounding, three counts of first-degree murder, and five counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Jones is scheduled to be sentenced in February.
The three players killed in the Nov. 13, 2022 shooting were wide receiver Devin Chandler, wide receiver Lavel Davis, and linebacker D'Sean Perry. Running back Mike Hollins was wounded along with another Virginia student, Marlee Morgan.
The shooting stunned the college football world and led the Cavaliers to cancel the remainder of their '22 season. Virginia is currently one win away from attaining bowl eligibility for the first time since the tragedy.
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Patrick Andres is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI in December 2022, having worked for The Blade, Athlon Sports, Fear the Sword and Diamond Digest. Andres has covered everything from zero-attendance Big Ten basketball to a seven-overtime college football game. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a double major in history .
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