Days after three UVA football players were killed in a campus shooting, a devastated community came together to mourn and to honor them RossDellenger from Charlottesville
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — John Paul Jones Arena is normally a place of excitement, of fun, of thrilling fast breaks, game-winning buzzer beaters and roar-inducing three-pointers.
They wore orange ribbons, bloodshot eyes and sorrowful expressions. They prayed, they sang and they remembered the lives of receivers Devin Chandler and Lavel Davis Jr. and linebacker D’Sean Perry, each of them shot dead Sunday night while on a charter bus after returning from a class trip. As the bus arrived on campus following a trip to Washington, D.C., it filled with gun smoke and terrified screams as shots rang out. It unfolded outside of a campus parking garage that’s visible from the upper reaches of John Paul Jones Arena.
Perry was a linebacker from Miami who himself set a career high earlier this year, in tackles. Friends described him as a Renaissance man: creative, colorful and majoring in art. You wouldn’t know it to look at him, says Hunter Stewart, a junior linebacker, but one of Perry’s favorite music artists was Adele.
They brought laughs into the lives of so many. For example, Davis had emblazoned on his arm three numbers: 187. Friends always thought it was the area code of his small hometown of Ridgeville, S.C. It turns out, it was the highway exit number into town.“I struggle to find words to articulate how much Lavel will be missed,” said junior quarterback Jared Rayman. “Even though I am two years older than Lavel, I looked up to him—literally.
Larry Sabato, a 70-year-old politics professor, confronted the neo-Nazis as he raced from his residence on UVA’s historic Lawn at the center of campus. Five years later, a new terror arrived here. “It’s a dagger to the heart,” Sabato says.
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