{"id":2026685,"date":"2023-09-09T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-murder-charges-brought-against-the-man-accused-of-killing-uva-football-players\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:52:16","slug":"new-murder-charges-brought-against-the-man-accused-of-killing-uva-football-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-murder-charges-brought-against-the-man-accused-of-killing-uva-football-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of killing UVA football players faces new murder charges."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fnew-murder-charges-brought-against-the-man-accused-of-killing-uva-football-players%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=2026685&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--><h2>Upgraded Murder Charges Issued\u2063 Against\u2063 Man Accused of Shooting University of Virginia Football Players<\/h2>\n<p>CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.\u2014Authorities have \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-murder-charges-brought-against-the-man-accused-of-killing-uva-football-players\/\" title=\"Man accused of killing UVA football players faces new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-juveniles-arrested-in-stabbing-death-of-15-year-old-in-la\/\" title=\"4 juveniles arrested in stabbing death of 15-year-old in La.\">murder charges<\/a>.&#8221;>upgraded murder charges<\/a> against the man accused of fatally shooting three University of Virginia football players last year.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-prosecutors-convene-grand-jury-to-hear-evidence-in-criminal-investigation-into-trump-others\/\" title=\"NY Prosecutors Convene Grand Jury To Hear Evidence In Criminal Investigation Into Trump, Others\">special grand jury<\/a> in Charlottesville issued the new aggravated murder\u2062 indictments against Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.\u200c If convicted, the 23-year-old would serve a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">mandatory life sentence<\/a>. They are the most serious murder charges available in Virginia after it abolished the death penalty in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jones\u2064 was a UVA student in November 2022 and a former member of the\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aaarrrggghhh-washpost-writer-triggered-by-tampa-bay-team-name-buccaneers\/\" title=\"Aaarrrggghhh! WashPost Writer Triggered By Tampa Bay Team Name \u2018Buccaneers\u2019\">football team<\/a> when police say he opened\u200c fire on a charter \u200cbus that had brought back students from\u2063 a field trip.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/fatal-shootings-leaves-australian-wheatbelt-community-in-shock-5487971\">Fatal \u200dShootings Leaves Australian \u200bWheatbelt Community in \u200cShock<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/7\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/man-28-charged-with-fatal-shooting-in-brea-5486745\">Man, 28, Charged with Fatal Shooting in\u2064 Brea<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/5\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Football players Lavel Davis \u200bJr., D\u2019Sean Perry,\u2062 and \u200cDevin \u200bChandler were killed, while a fourth member of the team, Mike Hollins, and another student \u2063were \u200bwounded.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jones had initially been charged with second-degree murder after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Albemarle County Commonwealth\u2019s Attorney James Hingeley said in a news\u200b release that the new indictments were returned Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Murtagh, the public defender in Charlottesville and Albemarle County appointed to represent\u2064 Mr. Jones, said \u2063she is &#8220;sorry\u200c the prosecutor chose to go this route&#8221; but declined further \u200bcomment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., the man accused of killing three University of Virginia football players, now faces upgraded murder charges. A special grand jury in Charlottesville issued the new indictments, which are for aggravated murder. If convicted, Jones Jr., 23, would receive a mandatory life sentence, making these the most severe murder charges possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2026686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/2026685","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\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}