Three dead in shooting at the University of Virginia

The university’s emergency management issued an alert on Sunday night notifying the campus community of an “active attacker firearm”.

Charlottesville police secure a crime scene of an overnight shooting at the University of Virginia, November 14, 2022, in Charlottesville, Virginia (Steve Helber/AP/PA)

A fatal shooting at a University of Virginia car park killed three people and wounded two others.

Classes at the school were cancelled on Monday, as police hunted for a student suspected of the attack at the Charlottesville campus. University of Virginia President Jim Ryan identified the suspect as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.