<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Three members of the University of Virginia football team have been shot and killed on campus.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Two others were injured in the shooting, which occurred on a bus filled with students returning from a field trip on Sunday evening.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">They were attacked as the bus pulled into a parking garage on the university campus, police say.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">A suspect is in custody charged with three counts of second degree murder and three counts of using a handgun.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">No possible motive for the attack was reported as police continued their investigation.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">A shelter-in-place order for the campus has been lifted but classes were cancelled on Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The shooting reportedly took place at around 22:30 (03:30 GMT) at a garage on Culbreth Road, on the university's Charlottesville campus.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Those killed were identified as Devin Chandler, a second-year student from Virginia Beach, D'Sean Perry, a fourth-year student from Miami, Florida, and Lavel Davis, a third-year student from Rich Hill, South Carolina.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Police say the bodies of the victims were found inside a charter bus after they returned from a field trip.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The university named the suspect as one of its students, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr, aged 22.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">"I am devastated that this violence has visited the University of Virginia," said Jim Ryan, the university's president.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The university is considered among one of the most prestigious in the country and ranked number three in public universities in the US. BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>