CHARLOTTEVILLE, Va. (AP)– Virginia announced his No. 23 Coastal canceled the game against Carolina.
The school said Wednesday that it has yet to decide whether the Cavaliers will play their traditional final game of the regular season at Virginia Tech on Nov. 26.
Former player Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. is accused of shooting and killing starting wide receiver Lovell Davis Jr., reserve wide receiver Devin Chandler and linebacker Di Killing Sean Perry. been accused. Jones faces three counts of second-degree murder, two counts of malicious bodily injury and an additional gun-related count, and is being held without bail.
Sports director Carla Williams said NCAA rules are “permissive” in allowing schools to move teams to player funerals. Davis is from Dorchester, South Carolina, and Chandler is from North Carolina. A native of Huntersville, State, Perry was from Miami.
“We will do everything we can to help our players recover and support the families of our three players,” Williams said Tuesday.
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“My first thought would be to be sensitive to what the young men want to do with regard to their teammates. If the team decides to attend the funeral, they say, ‘This is so much bigger than football, so I I won’t let that get in the way. It’s the living situation here.”
The Cavaliers won’t be practising this week, and Elliott said he hasn’t been thinking about the game since Sunday, instead focusing on his team and the family involved.
“At that point, in a series of events and timings, I focused on loving my players, comforting my family, and not affecting the members of my team.” It’s something that no one tries to deal with until it’s in. For me, the focus is not over today. ”
Williams said the university has provided several advisors to the team and other student-athletes, and Elliott became emotional when he described the team briefing starting Sunday.
“The first meeting was really, really hard. It’s really, really, really hard,” he said Tuesday, before stopping and calming himself down. to celebrate the lives of Lovell, DeShawn and Devin.”
Elliott attended a press conference after visiting the hospital were running back Mike Hollins, who was injured in the attack, was undergoing a second surgery on Tuesday. Hollins was taken off the ventilator on Tuesday and was able to receive visits from family and friends, said Joe Gipson, a spokesman for the family.
“He’s conscious, he’s active, it’s all positive,” Gipson said.
A fifth student, who was not a member of the soccer team, was also injured in the shooting.
