Page 4 - aruba-today-20221115

A4 U.S. NEWS
Tuesday 15 November 2022

Suspect caught in fatal shooting of 3 U.Va. football players

By SARAH RANKIN an intense manhunt, with
Associated Press authorities conducting a
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) building-by-building search
— A University of Virginia of the campus while stu-
student shot and killed dents sheltered in place.
three members of the The lockdown order was
school’s football team as lifted late Monday morn-
they returned to campus ing.
from a field trip, setting off Jones was taken into custo-
panic and a 12-hour lock- dy without incident in sub-
down at the school until urban Richmond, police
the suspect was captured said.
Monday. Authorities obtained arrest
The violence that also warrants for Jones charg-
wounded two students late ing him with three counts
Sunday erupted near a of second-degree murder
parking garage and closed and three counts of using a
much of the campus while handgun in the commission
police searched through of a felony, Longo said.
the night for the gunman. Jones had once been on
Officials got word during a the football team, but had
midmorning news briefing not been on the team for
that the suspect, 22-year- at least a year, Longo said.
old Christopher Darnell Charlottesville police secure a crime scene of an overnight shooting at the University of Virginia, The UVA football website
Jones Jr. had been arrest- Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in Charlottesville. Va. listed him as a team mem-
ed. Associated Press ber during the 2018 season
“Just give me a moment not have a “full under- a time when the nation is falo, New York, that killed and said he did not play in
to thank God, breathe a standing” of the motive or on edge from a string of 10 people and wounded any games.
sigh of relief,” university Po- circumstances surrounding mass shootings during the three. Hours after Jones was ar-
lice Chief Timothy Longo Sr. the shooting. last six months, including a Ryan identified the three rested, first-year head foot-
said after learning Jones “The entire university com- shooting that killed 19 stu- students who were killed as: ball coach Tony Elliott sat
was in custody. munity is grieving this morn- dents and two teachers Devin Chandler, Lavel Da- alone outside the athletic
The shooting happened ing,” a visibly strained Ryan at an elementary school in vis Jr. and D’Sean Perry. He building used by the team,
just after 10:15 p.m. Sunday said. Uvalde, Texas; a shooting said one of the wounded at times with his head in his
as a charter bus full of stu- “My heart is broken for the at a Fourth of July parade students was hospitalized in hands. He said the victims
dents returned from seeing victims and their families in a Chicago suburb that critical condition, and the “were all good kids” and
a play in Washington. and for all those who knew killed seven and wounded other was in good condi- that he would talk more
University President Jim and loved them.” more than 30; and a shoot- tion. about them “when the
Ryan said authorities did The killings happened at ing at a supermarket in Buf- The shooting touched off time is right.”q

Florida county puts damage from Nicole at $481 million

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Ian made homes vulner- nity where single-family single-family homes in Wil- ed. For storm-weary Florid-
Fla. (AP) — Damages are able to the impact of Ni- homes fell into the ocean bur-by-the-Sea and seven ians, Nicole was the first
estimated at more than cole in Wilbur-by-the Sea, last week. Volusia County single-family homes in near- November hurricane to hit
$481 million in a central Flor- a quaint beach commu- officials said that at least 30 by Ponce Inlet have been their shores since 1985 and
ida coastal county where deemed unsafe following only the third since record-
homes collapsed into the Hurricane Nicole. keeping began in 1853.
Atlantic Ocean following In Daytona Beach Shores The storm was blamed for
Hurricane Nicole last week. and New Smyrna Beach, five deaths in Florida. A man
The damages from the cat- two dozen multistory condo and a woman were killed
egory 1 storm in Volusia buildings have been evac- by electrocution when they
County, home to Daytona uated and deemed unsafe touched downed power
Beach, exceeded those by building inspectors. lines in the Orlando area.
from the much stronger Hur- Daytona Beach Shore by Also in Orange County,
ricane Ian, which caused far had the most property one man died in a vehicle
$377 million in the county, damage in the county, es- crash, and a male pedes-
officials said. Hurricane Ian, timated at $370.3 million, trian was struck and killed
a category 4 storm, made according to the Volusia by a vehicle because of
landfall in southwest Florida County Property Apprais- poor road conditions. An-
in late September and tore er. It was followed by New other man died as waves
across the state. Smyrna Beach at $51.1 mil- battered his yacht against
Moody’s Investors Service lion and Daytona Beach at a dock in Cocoa, despite
estimated insured losses A bed and chairs are seen inside a home that half collapsed $50 million. efforts to resuscitate him
from Ian at between $40 after the sand supporting it was swept away, following the The property appraiser’s by paramedics who man-
billion and $70 billion in Flor- passage of Hurricane Nicole, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, in Wilbur- office warned that those aged to get on board as
ida and North Carolina. By-The-Sea, Fla. figures would likely rise as the boat broke away from
Severe beach erosion from Associated Press more buildings are inspect- its moorings.q