UVA to Pay $9M to Families of 3 CFB Players Killed in 2022 Shooting After Settlement | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

The University of Virginia will pay out a total of $9 million in settlements regarding the shooting that killed three members of the Virginia football team in 2022, the Associated Press reported Friday.

The university will pay $2 million each to the families of D'Sean Perry, Devin Chandler and Lavel Davis Jr., the three students who died in the shooting, according to the AP.

UVA will pay an additional $3 million in total to Mike Hollins and Marlee Morgan, two students who were wounded in the shooting, the AP reported.

Hollins, a Virginia running back, returned to play 11 games during the 2023 season.

The settlement was decided out of court and approved by an Albemarle County judge Friday, the AP reported.

The settlement also received approval from Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares, according to the AP.

The shooting took place on Nov. 13, 2022, on a charter bus that had just returned to Charlottesville after a class field trip.

The incident led to a 12-hour lockdown and the arrest of former student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.

UVA launched an external investigation into school safety procedures after the fatal shooting. The university's threat assessment team had received a report that Jones potentially possessed a gun prior to the shooting, per UVA Magazine's Richard Gard.

Jones, who is being held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, faces charges that were upgraded last year from second-degree murder to aggravated murder, per Justin Jouvenal of the Washington Post. He could receive a life sentence if convicted.

Jones' trial is set to begin in January 2025, Hawes Spencer reported for Charlottesville's Daily Progress.