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Three University of Virginia football players were shot and killed Sunday night. And around 11 a.m. Monday morning Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, a University of Virginia student and 2018 football player was arrested in Henrico County, Virginia. Jones was on the run from the UVA after he allegedly fled from the scene of a shooting rampage.

Three UVA students and Cavaliers football players were killed.

University of Virginia police chief Tim Longo said Jones, was taken into custody. The former Cavaliers player is charged with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun to commit a felony.

University of Virginia president Jim Ryan announced at a news conference on Monday morning. He said the three students killed were “junior receiver Lavel Davis Jr. of Dorchester, South Carolina; junior receiver Devin Chandler of Huntersville, North Carolina; and junior defensive end/linebacker D'Sean Perry of Miami.”

Two other unnamed members of the team were wounded in the shooting. And are being treated at local hospitals. 

Ryan explained that the shooting happened on a charter bus after students returned to campus from a class field trip.

The team traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend a play. And the shootings occurred around 10:30 p.m. Sunday when they returned. The victims were still on the bus in the Culbreth parking garage on campus when they were shot.

 Longo said the students enjoyed a meal together and then "someone amongst them chose to do an act of violence."

Ryan called the incident a "sad, shocking, and tragic day for the university community."

"Let me say how deeply sorry I am for the victims and their families and friends," Ryan said.

Tony Elliott, Virginia football coach said of the murdered students that "They were all good kids."

University of Virginia football players shot

The campus tragedy occurred than a month before the start of exam week for the Fall semester.

The Sunday night shooting prompted the campus alert warning system. The student community was warned that an active attacker with a gun was in the area. And they were urged to "RUN. HIDE. FIGHT." 

The campus was on lockdown overnight. And all classes were canceled on Monday.

The manhunt continued overnight while students were ordered to “shelter-in-place.” According to UVA police, the order was lifted at 10:33 a.m. And Jones was apprehended off campus shortly afterwards.