{"id":1738542,"date":"2022-11-14T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T20:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738542"},"modified":"2022-11-14T17:04:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:04:49","slug":"accused-uva-gunman-was-on-polices-radar-since-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/accused-uva-gunman-was-on-polices-radar-since-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused UVA Gunman Was on Police&#8217;s Radar Since September"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faccused-uva-gunman-was-on-polices-radar-since-september%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738542&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The University of Virginia student who allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/14\/university-of-virginia-gunman-idd-as-christopher-darnell-jones-considered-armed\/\">killed three members of the football team <\/a>had been on the police\u2019s radar since September and had a prior criminal incident involving a concealed weapon, officials revealed at a press conference Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. was arrested after a 12-hour manhunt following the shootings at the school\u2019s Charlottesville campus on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I want to be transparent with you, I want you to know [that] \u2026 Mr. Jones came to the attention of the University of Virginia\u2019s threat assessment team in the fall of 2022,\u201d said the school\u2019s chief of police, Tim Longo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey received information that Mr. Jones had made a comment about possessing a gun to a person that was unaffiliated with the university,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Longo said police believe the person who reported him never saw a gun, and had noted that the comment wasn\u2019t made as a threat. The school also followed up with Jones\u2019 roommates, who told them they had not seen him with a weapon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-small-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-01.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.\" class=\"wp-image-24645404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=462 462w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=347 346w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=116 115w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jones had been on the threat assessment team\u2019s radar earlier because of a hazing investigation that was eventually closed after witnesses would not cooperate. Police did not provide more details about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Longo said that while investigating the hazing incident, the school \u201clearned about prior criminal incident involving a concealed weapon violation that occurred outside the city of Charlottesville in February of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s required as a student at University of Virginia to report that and he never did, so the University has taken appropriate administrative charges through the University\u2019s judiciary council and that matter is still pending adjudication,\u201d the chief said without providing details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll try to do better next time,\u201d a mournful Longo said at the presser.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow\" data-component=\"inlineSlideshow\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__header\">\n\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"button inline-slideshow__nav inline-slideshow__nav--prev inline-slideshow__nav--disabled\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Previous<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/button><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span>1<\/span> of <span>4<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"button inline-slideshow__nav inline-slideshow__nav--next\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slides\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-005.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"The three University of Virginia students shot dead after returning from a field trip were current members of the football team.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-005.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-005.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-005.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-005.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-005.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe three University of Virginia students shot dead after returning from a field trip were current members of the football team.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">AP<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-001.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"Two others on the bus were also injured -- one critically.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-001.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-001.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-001.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-001.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-001.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo others on the bus were also injured &#8212; one critically.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">Getty Images<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-002.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"They were fatally shot by a former member of the team.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-002.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-002.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-002.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-002.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-002.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThey were fatally shot by a former member of the team. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">Getty Images<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/uva-bus-bullet-004.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"The university president paid tribute to the gunned-down players, calling it \" an unimaginably sad day for our community \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe university president paid tribute to the gunned-down players, calling it &#8220;an unimaginably sad day for our community.&#8221;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">AP<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-09.jpg\" alt=\"A bus idles behind police tape during an active shooter situation at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022\" class=\"wp-image-24645436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-09.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-09.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-09.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Two students were found dead on a bus that had returned from a field trip.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-06.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a law enforcement K9 team working the crime scene on UVA campus Monday.\" class=\"wp-image-24645453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-06.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-06.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/virginia-university-shooting-suspect-police-radar-06.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A law enforcement K9 team works the crime scene on the UVA campus Monday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/newspress-collage-24646743-1668453950926.jpg?1668436025\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/newspress-collage-24646743-1668453950926.jpg?1668436025&#038;w=1024&#038;1668436025\" alt=\"D&#039;Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler\" class=\"wp-image-24648216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/newspress-collage-24646743-1668453950926.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;1668437893&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/newspress-collage-24646743-1668453950926.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;1668437893 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/newspress-collage-24646743-1668453950926.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;1668437893&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>D\u2019Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler were killed in Sunday night\u2019s shooting.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">University of Virginia<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jones has been slapped with three charges of second-degree murder for killing Devin Chandler of Virginia Beach, Lavel \u201cTyler\u201d Davis of Dorchester, South Carolina, and D\u2019Sean Perry of Miami, Florida. Two of the students were found dead on the bus and one was declared deceased at a hospital. The names of the two other students injured in the shooting have not been released. <\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s shelter-in-place mandate was lifted Monday morning and Jones was taken into custody. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Virginia student who allegedly killed three members of the football team had been on the police\u2019s radar since September and had a prior criminal incident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1738546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}