UVA, Virginia Tech Football Game Canceled Following Shooting That Killed Three Players

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Virginia canceled Saturday's game against rival Virginia Tech after three football players were killed on campus a week ago.

The university made the announcement late Monday, two days after a nearly two-hour memorial service honoring Lavelle Davis Jr., Devin Chandler and D'Sean Perry. Three people were shot dead on November 13 after watching a performance in Washington.

UVA student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a former football team member, began shooting at students on a bus parked in the campus parking lot, according to authorities.

A witness told police the gunman targeted certain victims and shot one person in their sleep, a prosecutor told a court last week. Two other students were injured.

Jones, 23, faces second-degree murder and other charges stemming from the shooting that led to a manhunt and campus closure in a suburb of Richmond 12 hours before Jones was arrested. Jones was arrested.

Authorities have not disclosed a motive.

Virginia also won the game against the world number ones last Saturday. 23 Coastal Carolina has been cancelled.

Neither the Cavaliers (3-7, 1-6 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) under freshman Tony Elliott, nor the Hokies (3-8, 1-6) under freshman Brent Pry. lost. not playing.

The Hokies, who suffered a massacre in 2007 that left 33 people including the shooter, dressed in orange as they ended a seven-game losing streak with the 23-22 win at Liberty on Saturday. The Hokies and Virginia share orange as their signature color.

ACC issued the following statement on the cancellation:

ACC and Virginia Tech, three members of the Cavalier football team: Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and continue to support UVA following the devastating tragedy that resulted in the death and injury of college student D'Sean Perry (also a student and athlete on the football team at Virginia) and Marlee Morgan led.

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UVA canceled last home football game while shooting suspect remains in court