Comment A shooting occurred late Sunday in a parking garage on the main campus at the University of Virginia. Authorities did not immediately report any injuries or deaths The shooting was reported at the parking garage on Culbreth Street at about 10:30 p.m., the University of Virginia Office of Emergency Management said. University police said in a tweet that they were looking for Christopher Darnell Jones “in connection with the shooting incident.” Jones is 23 years old and could be a former football player, according to the 2018 roster. Police said the suspect is a black man wearing a burgundy jacket or hoodie, blue jeans and red shoes, was at large and was considered armed and dangerous. They said he may be driving a black SUV with Virginia plates. The UVA Police Department is searching for Christopher Darnell Jones in connection with a shooting incident that occurred on the University of Virginia campus. Call 911 if you see it, do not approach. pic.twitter.com/mKcxF6ksxw — UVA Police Department (@UVAPolice) November 14, 2022 Jones, according to a U-Va. sports website, was a freshman on the football team in 2018 but did not appear in any games. He previously played fullback and running back at Petersburg High School in Virginia. Before that, he spent three years at Varina High School, where he was an accomplished player. It was not immediately known if he is still a U-Va. school student. A university spokesman, reached by phone, could not immediately provide details on the number of people who may have been shot or their condition. Just before midnight, the emergency management office urged students to remain indoors and to “reach out to friends and family and advise of your situation.” In a message that followed at about 1:15 a.m., Vice President and Dean of Students Robyn S. Hadley urged the community, “Please take shelter-in-place orders seriously as the situation remains active.” The emergency management office later said multiple police agencies were “actively searching for the suspect.” The wider U-Va. the community was in an uproar during the night. “UVA parents are glued to our social media right now. … The parents are all on edge,” said Danielle Werchowsky, of Arlington, whose son is a student there. He said she urged him in a phone call to turn off the lights in his apartment and stay away from the windows. Culbreth Road and the garage, where shots were fired, are about a half-mile north of the Lawn and Rotunda and near other campus buildings. Family and friends with questions are urged to call a U-Va. Emergency line at 877-685-4836. This isn’t the first time a shooting has rocked a college campus this year. In February, two campus police officers at Bridgewater College were fatally shot after checking a report of a “suspicious male” near a classroom building. The suspect linked to their deaths was a former student. Also in February, a late-night shooting at a hookah lounge near the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg left one person dead and four injured, police said. And in 2007, Virginia Tech experienced one of the worst mass shootings in US history when an undergraduate student killed 32 people and himself on April 16 of that year. This is a developing story and will be updated.
