Christopher Darnell Jones of Richmond identified as University of Virginia shooting suspect

Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., the man identified by authorities as a suspect in a University of Virginia shooting that left three people dead and ...

November 14, 2022
5:48 PM

Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., the man identified by authorities as a suspect in a University of Virginia shooting that left three people dead and two injured, grew up in Richmond and got in fights in school after his father left, according to a 2018 Richmond Times-Dispatch article. As of Monday morning, he was still at large.  Christopher Darnell Jones is shown in a Times-Dispatch photo from 2018. The school's emergency management department described him as a Black male, wearing a burgundy jacket, blue jeans and red shoes.

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