Atlantic Coastal Conference will honor football players shot dead in Virginia moment of silence and specially designed helmets
- The ACC has planned several measures to honor the shooting victims Saturday
- Three University of Virginia football players were shot dead on campus Sunday
- Christopher Darnell Jones, 22, was indicted on three-counts of second-degree murder and five of using a firearm in commission of a felony
- ACC schools will play football with messaging and specially designed helmets
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The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Wednesday it and member schools will honor the recent deaths of three University of Virginia football players killed in a shooting Sunday.
Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, was indicted Wednesday on three counts of second-degree murder and five of using a firearm in commission of a felony.
He shot and killed Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr and D’Sean Perry in the attack, all of which were players on the university football team.
Witnesses claim they saw Jones ‘target’ individuals on the bus and watched Chandler slide to the floor after being shot.
Jones was remanded in custody without bond and will next appear in court in December at 9:30am, though it is unclear if he will be transported from Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.
The Atlantic Coastal Conference has planned several measures to honor the victims Saturday
This combo of undated image provided by University of Virginia Athletics shows NCAA college football players, from left, Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry. The three Virginia football players were killed in a shooting in Charlottesville, while returning from a class trip
A moment of silence will be held during all conference games this week. Each home team will additionally have field signage which says ‘UVA Strong.’
Helmets will have special designs during football games this weekend, with the decals approved by those at ACC headquarters in Greensboro, NC.
The ‘UVA Strong’ message will also make its way onto video boards at the games and across social media and digital platforms.
University officials and police said Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, joined a group of about two dozen others on a field trip Sunday from the Charlottesville campus to see a play in the nation’s capital, about 120 miles away. Jones was a member of the football team during the 2018 season, a one-semester walk-on, according to athletics director Carla Williams
Virginia canceled its final home football game of the season Wednesday, the same day as Jones’ hearing.
The students had been on a field trip to see a play in Washington DC, with the devastating incident taking place as they pulled into the parking garage.
It set off panic and a 12-hour lockdown of the campus until the suspect was captured just outside Richmond on Monday.
Jones’ father now says he was ‘paranoid’ and said people had been ‘picking on him’ for weeks before he killed wide receivers Chandler, Davis Jr. and linebacker Perry.
A pedestrian stands in front of a fraternity house with a banner memorializing three University of Virginia football players killed during an overnight shooting at the university on Monday
The violence erupted near a parking garage just after 10:15 p.m. Sunday as a bus full of students returned to Charlottesville
Fellow UVA football players Dontayvion Wicks and Mike Hollins were injured but survived.
The violence at the state’s flagship public university has set off days of mourning among students and faculty, the broader Charlottesville community and other supporters.
Classes resumed Wednesday, though the school announced it was canceling Saturday’s game against Coastal Carolina.
No decision has been made yet about whether UVA will participate in its final game of the season on November 26 against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, the university said in a news release.
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