OFF TOPIC: Shooting at UVA

[Secondbace]

I didn't think much could take the still-present delirium away after Saturday's win. This did it for me... Facts are still coming out and the suspect is still at large; but the shooting at UVA seems to have been committed by an ex-football player and appears to have targeted their football program.

The first confirmed death is UVA LB D'Sean Perry. He was a junior. He was the high school teammate of UConn FB Robert Burns. Their most recent Twitter posts confirm their admiration for one another.

I'm not one to pray; but I am sending all the love and good vibes that I can muster to the friends, teammates, colleagues, and family of everyone affected by this senseless tragedy.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[LoyalFanCT]

They caught the suspect

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

Prayers up for the victims, the football team, and U of Virginia in general.

But I’ve got a feeling this is going to be an ugly story. During the initial press conference, the Police Chief already said that the suspect was identified as a potential threat previously and that he was part of a hazing investigation that was dismissed due to no witnesses willing to cooperate with the investigation.

The fact they are putting this info out before the suspect was even caught makes me think that they are trying to get out ahead of this story and it is not going to be good.

 

[huskypantz]

Horrific. Thoughts with the team, families and community. More senseless violence.

 

[huskypantz]

Prayers up for the victims, the football team, and U of Virginia in general.

But I’ve got a feeling this is going to be an ugly story. During the initial press conference, the Police Chief already said that the suspect was identified as a potential threat previously and that he was part of a hazing investigation that was dismissed due to no witnesses willing to cooperate with the investigation.

The fact they are putting this info out before the suspect was even caught makes me think that they are trying to get out ahead of this story and it is not going to be good.

If that’s the case, UVA leadership should be crapping their pants.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

are they going to cancel the rest of the UVA FB season?

 

[HuskyNan]

November 14, 2022 UVA shooting news

The University of Virginia student suspected of fatally shooting three people Sunday at the school's main campus in Charlottesville, is in custody officials said. Follow here for the latest.

www.cnn.com

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

UVA: 2 other Wahoos students shot in incident; 1 in good condition, 1 in critical condition

Idaho: Also Sunday, 4 UI students found deceased in off-campus house, homicide investigation

 

[gioff2323]

We, of all schools/fan bases, should have real empathy for any school who sees a football player slain on campus. Let’s be a source of healing for a community that is and will be hurting for many years to come. Thoughts and prayers to ALL the lives who are forever changed.

 

[ZachFan]

I remember hearing the news about Jazz and that was just one player, I can't fathom what their fans and teammates are feeling right now.

There are all most certainly in my prayers.

 

[huskypantz]

Hmmm, I had wrongly assumed that he was hazed. It's unclear but sounds like the other way around.......but he was a freshman walkon? Seems like he would have been the one hazed. The accused was "member of the National Honor Society, president of the Key Club and student of the year as a freshman and sophomore, according to the UVA", but OTOH may have previously possessed a gun on campus illegally. There's just a lot to unpack in the midst of grief for three young men who lost their lives.

 

[Platt81]

Hmmm, I had wrongly assumed that he was hazed. It's unclear but sounds like the other way around.......but he was a freshman walkon? Seems like he would have been the one hazed. The accused was "member of the National Honor Society, president of the Key Club and student of the year as a freshman and sophomore, according to the UVA", but OTOH may have previously possessed a gun on campus illegally. There's just a lot to unpack in the midst of grief for three young men who lost their lives.

It’s sloppy writing, I think in 2018 when he was listed on the football page he was a freshman walk-on, not that he currently is.

 

[traitor71]

are they going to cancel the rest of the UVA FB season?

With only being able to see this from afar, I would personally defer to whatever their program wants to do. On a personal level, not sure how you pick up and move ahead with games on such a short turnaround.

 

[Greg]

Several years ago UCONN lost a player to similar violence. It was heartbreaking. Now three at UVA. I read that four students were murdered at Idaho. I can't wrap my head around these things. I lost a student several years ago who was murdered during a drug deal gone bad. I have no answers when we lose young people in such senseless acts. As for the games, sometimes they help with the healing. I guess it depends on how the people in and around the program feel. In the UVA instance, where a teammate was the shooter I don't think I could play. Losing one student I couldn't teach the next day. I just needed a day to think if I could have done anything to change the outcome. I hope the players, coaches, students, faculty, and families involved can heal. Makes no sense.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

If that’s the case, UVA leadership should be crapping their pants.

I hope it’s not NIL related, I was worried something like this might happen when you start paying 17 and 18 yr old college kids based on how they perform on the field.

 

[giddyup]

It’s a sad, sad state of affairs. There are a lot sick people out there.

 

[Nostical]

Horrible! And tough to process.
As for the upcoming games with Coastal Carolina and Va Tech, I can foresee a forfeit to Coastal—too soon—and perhaps a last game vs Va Tech to help heal the community. Va Tech also experienced a terrible campus shooting some years ago and, as their traditional rival, could provide the right empathetic environment for the game. No easy options no matter how you look at it.
But with a record of 3-7, and with no bowl prospects, the administration just might shut football down for the year.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

It’s a sad, sad state of affairs. There are a lot sick people out there.

Yes, definitely! But why go after other team members? There’s more to this story.

 

[billybud]

The young man's father was on TV saying that his son had become paranoid...mental health issues and a gun don't mix well.

 

[superjohn]

From what I gather the shooter was investigated for hazing other students. The shooter wasn't on the football team since 2018. The writing is so poor in most of the articles I think a lot of people think the murderer was on the football team and this was some sort of retaliation for him being hazed.

Sounds like another disturbed coward who presented warning signs. If you read up on him and listen to quotes from his parents/mentor he felt slighted and blamed others his entire life for his own issues/violence.

The victims all sounded like incredible people with bright futures, sad.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

UVA: The 2 hospitalized students are also football players
EDIT: 1 football player, 1 female student

 

[superjohn]

No football component but the University of Idaho story seems even more horrific.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

From what I gather the shooter was investigated for hazing other students. The shooter wasn't on the football team since 2018. The writing is so poor in most of the articles I think a lot of people think the murderer was on the football team and this was some sort of retaliation for him being hazed.

Sounds like another disturbed coward who presented warning signs. If you read up on him and listen to quotes from his parents/mentor he felt slighted and blamed others his entire life for his own issues/violence.

The victims all sounded like incredible people with bright futures, sad.

No football component but the University of Idaho story seems even more horrific.

In complete agreement with both posts.

 

[Patman]

The young man's father was on TV saying that his son had become paranoid...mental health issues and a gun don't mix well.

The college years are also peak years for developing serious mental illness like paranoid schizophrenia. A kid away from home who doesn't want to present failure with some social connections. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often to be honest.