Suspect Caught in Fatal Shooting of 3 UVA Football Players: Police

Students huddled inside laboratory closets and darkened dorm rooms across the University of Virginia while others moved far away from library windows and barricaded the doors of its stately academic buildings after an ominous warning flashed on their screens: “RUN. HIDE. FIGHT.”

Responding to the immediate threat of an on-campus shooting was a moment they had prepared for since their first years of elementary school. But dealing with the emotional trauma of an attack that killed three members of the school’s football team late Sunday left students shaken and grasping to understand.

“This will probably affect our campus for a very, very long time,” said Shannon Lake, a third-year student from Crozet, Virginia.

For 12 hours, she hid with friends and other students, much of that time in a storage closet, while authorities searched into Monday morning for the suspect before he was taken into custody.

When Lake and the others heard someone might be right outside the business school building, they all decided to go into the closet, turn off the lights and barricade the door.

“That was probably the most terrifying moment because it became more real to us, and reminded us of those practice school lockdowns as children. And it was just kind of a surreal moment where, you know, I don’t think any of us were really processing what was going on,” she said.

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[luchacefox]

Victims ran a train on the shooters GF then sent him the video. Got exactly what they deserve for that kind of F'ed up behavior. Act like a Reggin, get smoked like a Reggin.

[htomerif]

Yeah, something tells me whatever dispute led to this had nothing to do with football.

[ilenemorris]

Condolences to the family who lost their lives because someone couldn't handle his own.

[JoeArn]

Nice and quick so they can’t give any details

[npc]

Oh no, so sad to lose athletes or to lose any athletes that has contributed so much to the advancements of our society.