UVA mass shooting

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of sounds like a dispute between members of the football team versus a random event?

Literally no one has described this as a random event, toots. A killer is still on the loose.

What’s with the condescending tone, ‘roots’? Never said anyone had described this as a random event, merely making an observation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fight? How? What a terrible message to receive.

I work in a synagogue and this is what we are taught. Fight is last resort. The rabbi held hostage in Texas fought. Waited until terrorist got tired and threw a chair at him. That counts as fighting.

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Don’t fight this is ridiculous

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Anonymous wrote:Fight? How? What a terrible message to receive.

I work in a synagogue and this is what we are taught. Fight is last resort. The rabbi held hostage in Texas fought. Waited until terrorist got tired and threw a chair at him. That counts as fighting.

Absolutely. Your life is worth fighting for, so fight. Don't stand there or cower and get mowed down. Stand up and fight. You better believe that I will fight if someone is trying to kill me.

I am a UVA alum and I am completely devastated by this tragedy. I am so heartbroken for the deceased and injured players, and their family and friends. They are all in my thoughts and prayers right now.

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Current linebacker D’Sean Perry has been confirmed dead by his father (reported by Richmond times). My heart breaks for these families.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t fight this is ridiculous

It is ridiculous and people are beyond sick if it. We can say what we want to try to protect our kids that are in school. We don't need to live with all these guns everywhere and treated as the solution to everything if we organize and tell the NRA to get lost.

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Anonymous wrote:Current linebacker D’Sean Perry has been confirmed dead by his father (reported by Richmond times). My heart breaks for these families.

Link it

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Anonymous wrote:Current linebacker D’Sean Perry has been confirmed dead by his father (reported by Richmond times). My heart breaks for these families.

Link it

DP, I already linked several posts above.

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Anonymous wrote:It was possibly after practice is what I've heard, and that all killed were members of the football team. I agree, i was at the game Saturday and they were booed off the field at half-time, definitely feel bad about that though I was not one who booed.

Why would people be booing? It's not like they wanted to do badly. That is what I don't get about the audience of any sports. The players get so much abuse from spectators. It hurts the players more when they lose. I always assume the people who are nasty are those who are low-class gambling addicts who made a bad bet and can't deal with the fact that the results are not what they wanted.

People who boo are nasty and trashy. I feel so bad for the players who are out there trying their best, only to be booed by their own "fans."

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Anonymous wrote:So it sounds more like targetted shooting rather than mass shooting.

Three people are dead. By definition it is a mass shooting. Why are you arguing semantics? Sit down.

Target can be one or many.

And “mass” is not synonymous with “random.”

Your need to argue semantics while a killer is on the loose blocks from where my child and others’ live is disgusting. Shame on you.

ok mass target shooting

Was it a football player from a different school targeting UVA football players?

No. Nothing is know about motive just that the alleged shooter was on the football team roster in 2018.

News outlets are reporting one of the names and that it occurred in the Culbreth Garage.
https://dailyprogress.com/news/crime/linebacker-de-dsean-perry-one-of-3-killed-in-sunday-night-shooting-shooter-still-at/article_5f355324-63d3-11ed-9a82-9373d2cd6eb0.html

Another one of the victims is apparently a beloved player on the team. Not using the name until confirmed.

My DD has several friends on the football team (all safe) but just heartbroken for them. Just hope he’s found soon and they can start the healing process. It’s been a completely terrifying night for these kids.

Was the entire football team On the bus? They all witnessed this?

no as she heard it, it was a small group.

[Anonymous]

This young man has been killed.

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Shooter was on roster in 2018. So no longer a student there?

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Anonymous wrote:Shooter was on roster in 2018. So no longer a student there?

Email from UVA president confirmed the shooter is a current student.

[Anonymous]

I hope this post doesn't get lost amid all the nasty carping going on here.

Someone noted this video earlier in the thread but I wanted to post the link again. The Washington Post linked to this as well. This is a short video demonstrating the "Run, Hide, Fight" process for surviving a mass shooting. It is a very well-produced, pragmatic video, and yes, it's hard to watch, even knowing that you are only seeing actors. But it is spot on, and tracks perfectly with other active shooter training I have had and articles I've read.

Please -- watch it, have your teens and college age kids watch it, talk about it, and have your spouses watch as well. You might think you know what to do, but seeing it in

For those farther above in the thread saying fighting wasn't a thing -- yes, it is, if it has to be. This video doesn't go all the way in showing people actually fighting but the steps it depicts (like finding weapons in the room where you are, such as fire extinguishers, chairs, etc.) are, again, spot on for what experts say to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcSwejU2D0

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Anonymous wrote:University President Jim Ryan just confirmed in any e-mail that:

-- Three people are dead
-- Two are being treated for injuries
-- Suspect is Chris Darnell Jones, a former football player.

At least one of the dead is a UVA player, confirmed by his father on Twitter. I'm not saying the name because of all the issues Twitter has had with false blue verification marks. However, the word from people in Charlottesville is this happened on or at the team bus when it came back from the Pitt game.

As of 4 a.m., the suspect was still at large. Multiple police agencies looking with helicopters, bloodhounds, etc.

Pitt game was a home game on Saturday afternoon. This happened late Sunday night.

Hmmm. Maybe it was some other team outing or the information is wrong.

At least two of the dead are players, however.

I feel terrible. We were at the game Saturday, drove down specifically for it. The Cavs played horribly and lost big time. I'm ashamed to say I had some unkind words for the players 😔

WTAF is wrong with you? You should be ashamed, even if there wasn't this shooting involving students and players. These college kids OWE YOU NOTHING. I am a HUGE fan of my alma mater (another ACC school, one your school loves to hate, but we just beat you recently in football and we are gearing up to do it again in basketball). I have had my share of heartaches and frustrations with my team but I would NEVER bad mouth them, in person or otherwise. EVER. These are students. You think they don't have enough pressure with some jerk screaming at them because they're only human and are having a bad game. You are disgusting.