Football Player From Miami Among 3 Killed in University of Virginia Shooting – NBC 6 South Florida
A young football star from Miami was one of three people killed in a shooting at the University of Virginia Sunday night, according to reports.
D’Sean Perry, a linebacker and defensive end for the UVA football team, was killed in the shooting, his father confirmed to media outlets.
Perry, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound junior, was from Miami and had attended Gulliver Prep.
University of Virginia D’Sean Perry
He was named the South Florida Conference’s 2018 Defensive Player of the Year his senior year at Gulliver.
Perry played in 15 games over three seasons at UVA, and appeared in the team’s 37-7 loss to Pittsburgh on Saturday.
The Sunday night shooting left three people dead and at least two others injured, and sparked a manhunt for the suspect, believed to be a former UVA football player.
Gunfire was initially reported at a parking garage on Culbreth Road, near the school’s drama building, at around 10:30 p.m. Sunday, the University of Virginia Office of Emergency Management said in a tweet.
Authorities said they were looking for Christopher Darnell Jones in connection with the deadly shooting.
“Call 911 if seen, do not approach,” the University of Virginia Police Department warned in a tweet, sharing a photo of Jones.
The same photo appears on a profile for Jones in a 2018 football roster shared on the official website for the Virginia Cavaliers. The profile said Jones did not appear in any games that year.
He did not appear on the Cavalier’s roster in any following season.
