university of virginia football player shooting.

A former University of Virginia student has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting three football players and wounding two other students on the campus in 2022. Judge Cheryl Higgins on Friday gave Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. the maximum possible sentence after listening to five days of testimony. Jones pleaded guilty last year. Authorities say Jones opened fire aboard a charter bus as he and other students arrived back on campus after seeing a play and having dinner together in Washington, D.C. The shooting erupted near a parking garage and prompted a 12-hour lockdown of the Charlottesville campus until the suspect was captured.