UVA to pay $9 million to families of football players killed in 2022 campus shooting

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The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two students, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families said Friday.

The school in Charlottesville will pay $2 million each to the families of the three students who died, said Kimberly Wald, an attorney with the Miami-based Haggard Law firm, which represents the estate of D’Sean Perry. The other two students who died were Devin Chandler and Lavel Davis Jr.Wald said the university will pay $3 total to the two students who were wounded Mike Hollins, a fourth member of the football team, and Marlee Morgan.Police said Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.

It occurred when he and others had returned by charter bus to campus from a field trip to see a play in Washington, authorities said.The violence that erupted near a parking garage set off panic and a 12-hour lockdown of the campus until the suspect was captured.

 

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