Charlottesville, Va. — The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in 2022 for the campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two other students, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families said Friday.
The Charlottesville school will pay $2 million to the families of the three students who died, said attorney Kimberly Wald of the Miami-based Haggard Law Firm, which represents De’Sean Perry’s estate. The other two students killed were Devin Chandler and Lovell Davis Jr.
Wald said the university will pay a total of $3 million to the two injured students: Mike Hollins, a quarterback on the football team, and Marley Morgan.
Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a UVA student and former member of the school’s football team, fired the shots, police said. It happened as he and others were returning to campus on a charter bus from a field trip to see a play in Washington, D.C., authorities said.
The violence, which erupted near a parking garage, sparked panic and a 12-hour campus lockdown until the suspect was apprehended.
Within days of the shooting, university leaders asked for an outside review to investigate UVA’s security policies and procedures, its response to violence and ultimately its earlier efforts to assess the potential threat of the accused student. School officials acknowledged that Jones had previously been on the radar of the university’s threat-assessment team.
The murder charge against Jones was upgraded from second-degree murder to aggravated murder in 2023. He is scheduled to go to trial in January.
