UVA to honor former football players killed in 2022 at Saturday game
Sep 24, 2026
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WRIC) -- The University of Virginia will honor three football players who lost their lives in a mass shooting on campus in 2022 during Saturday's game. Twenty-two-year-old D’Sean Perry of Miami, Fla., 20-year-old Devin Chandler of Virginia Beach and 20-year-old Lavel Davis
Jr. of Ridgeville, S.C., are remembered as smart, kind young men with bright futures ahead of them.
The annual UVA Strong Game on Saturday, Sept. 26, is a time for the school to remember and honor them. In a press release, UVA said its athletics department will give away 30,000 "UVA Strong" T-shirts with the men's football jersey numbers: 1 (Davis), 15 (Chandler), and 41 (Perry) at the game.
This combo of undated images provided by University of Virginia Athletics shows NCAA college football players, from left, Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D'Sean Perry. (University of Virginia Athletics via AP, File)
There are also permanent memorials on the south end zone fascia at Scott Stadium and plaques on “Legends Walk” on the north end zone concourse.
Kickoff is at 6 p.m. against Delaware.
The three men were killed on Nov. 13, 2022, after 27 UVA students went to Washington, D.C. by bus for a field trip, leaving campus a little before lunchtime. They were going to see a play for a class.
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As they were arriving back on campus, fellow student Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr. shot and killed the men and injured two other students.
Jones fled the scene and wasn’t arrested until around 11 hours later in Henrico County.
Jones pleaded guilty to 10 charges on Nov. 20, 2024, including three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated malicious wounding and five counts of use of a firearm in a felony. His attorneys argued he had slipped into a state of delusion at the time of the shooting.
He was given five life sentences in November 2025 following an emotional five days of testimony from the men's friends, family and survivors of the shooting.
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