[5] The perpetrator, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., opened fire while on a chartered bus[6] that had returned from a UVA class trip to Washington, D.C., to see a play about Emmett Till on November 13, 2022.

[7] A survivor said that the shooting began as they were pulling up to the parking garage, and at first she thought it was a balloon or bag of chips popping, before she smelled smoke and gunpowder and dropped to the floor of the bus.

[12][13] At around 10:30 pm, Virginia Cavaliers head football coach Tony Elliott was called by an uninjured football player on the bus and notified of what happened, along with UVA police department support services bureau captain Mike Blakey, and both responded to the scene at the same time.

As both of the injured were members of UVA sports teams, multiple other coaches and athletics administrators joined the two men at the hospital.

[22] Two other UVA students were wounded and hospitalized in moderate condition, including another football player for the university.

[26] A vigil for the victims was held the day after the shooting, with candles placed around the Statue of Homer on campus with signs depicting the phrase "UVA Strong" and the uniform numbers of the deceased players; "1-15-41".

Celebrities attended and performed in the service, such as Bronco Mendenhall, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, past Cavalier players including Chris Long and Heath Miller, and gospel singer CeCe Winans.

[14] The Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball game scheduled for November 14 against Northern Iowa was later canceled due to the shooting.

Born in Petersburg, Virginia, on November 17, 1999, he attended eighth grade at John Rolfe Middle School.

[32][31] During his high school years he was named Student of the Year twice, and was a member of the National Honor Society and National Technical Honor Society, president of the Key Club, and president of the Jobs for Virginia Grads Program.

[2] The UVA Office of Student Affairs reported the concerns to the multidisciplinary threat assessment team, and investigators had reached out to Jones.

[4] State and federal prosecutors pledged support to the local law enforcement community in terms of investigating the incident and trying the suspect in the appropriate jurisdiction.

[39] Two days after the shooting, prosecutors additionally charged Jones with two counts of malicious wounding, each accompanied by the use of a firearm.

[26] US House of Representatives member Jennifer Wexton (D, Virginia 10th) said in a tweet: "My heart breaks for those killed and injured, and for the entire UVA community which has been shaken by this horrific tragedy.