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Police Chief: UVA Threat Assessment Team Was Alerted About Shooting Suspect in September
University of Virginia (UVA) police chief Timothy Longo said the school’s threat assessment team was alerted about shooting suspect Christopher Darnell Jones in September.
Jones allegedly shot five individuals at the UVA campus’ Gilbreth Garage on Sunday, killing three and leaving two wounded, Breitbart News reported.
Chief Longo announced the capture of Jones during a Monday morning press conference, the Richmond Times-Dispatch noted.
During that same Monday morning press conference, Longo noted that Jones had been brought to the attention of UVA’s threat assessment team in September 2022.
“Our office of student affairs reported to multidisciplinary threat assessment that they received information that Mr. Jones had made a comment about possessing a gun to a person who was unaffiliated with the university,” Longo said.
Longo said that police do not believe the person who reported Jones’ gun ever actually saw the gun.
He noted that “the office of student affairs followed up with the reporting person and made efforts to contact Mr. Jones.”
Longo noted that Jones also came to the threat assessment team’s attention via alleged “involvement in a hazing investigation of some sort.”
He noted that Jones also had “a criminal incident involving a concealed weapon violation outside the city of Charlottesville in February of 2021.”