Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry and Devin Chandler were shot and killed Sunday by a fellow student and former University of Virginia football player.
and former football player. Two other students were wounded, including another football player, Mike Hollins, who underwent a second surgery Tuesday.
An undisclosed injury sidelined Davis for the 2021 season but he returned this year, starting six of the first seven games. In the season opener against the University of Richmond, Davis caught four passes for 89 yards, including a 56-yard touchdown. He was on a watch list for 2022 Comeback Player of the Year.
Overall, Moore said Davis was “an outstanding, charismatic young man. He was very ambitious — confident both as an athlete but also as a student. He just had his head on right.”“He made a point to come up and shake my hand and told me I should call him Vel,” Hamilton tweeted. The professor later helped Chandler to declare his major in American studies, “which he was really excited about.”
“And he was there telling me how much of a difference he saw in me. How much I had grown. How I had improved as a player,” said Johnson, who is now a freshman cornerback at Appalachian State. “That was the type of guy he was. He was always trying to lift people up. ... That was also the last time I saw him.”
Michael Haggard, an attorney for Perry’s parents, issued a statement thanking the South Florida and the Charlottesville communities for “the outpouring of support during this impossibly tragic time.”
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