The 22-year-old man accused of killing three people and wounding two others at the University of Virginia had a tumultuous childhood but, according to a 2018 profile in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, he had been celebrated for overcoming it.
On Monday, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. was the target of a police manhunt that has shut down the U-Va. campus in Charlottesville for nearly 12 hours. …
A woman who identified herself as Jones’s mother, Margo, answered a Washington Post reporter’s call Monday morning.
“I can tell you now that Chris was a good kid,” she said, before hanging up.
[That’s an odd way to identify someone who just shot up a campus and killed three people. “Flourished” is not how anyone would describe a perp who is suspected of such a crime. — Ed]
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