A University of Virginia professor helped foil a kidnapping outside his home in Charlottesville this week. Robert Emery, a psychology professor, told WCAV he and his family were getting ready for bed Wednesday night when they heard what sounded like a domestic dispute outside their home near the UVa campus. Emery told his wife to …
Three University of Virginia football players were shot and killed Sunday night when one of their former teammates opened fire on a chartered bus that had just brought a group of students back to Charlottesville from a play in Washington, D.C. A university police captain interrupted UVA Police Chief Timothy Longo during a news conference …
A suspect is in custody after he allegedly killed three people and wounded two others in a parking garage on the University of Virginia campus Sunday night. The 1,000-acre campus was on lockdown with a shelter-in-place order Monday morning as police searched for Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., a student at the school and former football player. …
James Alex Fields Jr., the man who killed one and injured dozens when he intentionally drove his car into a group counter-protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was sentenced to life in federal prison Friday for the 2017 incident. Fields, 22, was sentenced for hate crime charges for the widely-publicized hit-and-run wreck that …
‘Heather died doing what she loved — standing up for people’
By SARAH RANKIN, Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The man accused of plowing a car into a crowd protesting a white supremacist rally in Virginia had been photographed hours earlier carrying the emblem of one of the hate groups that organized the “Take America Back” campaign. Vanguard America denied on Sunday any association with the …
