A suspect is in custody after killing three University of Virginia football players on a charter bus returning from a field trip, police say.

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The University of Virginia lifted a campuswide lockdown Monday, hours after three students were killed and two injured in a shooting rampage on a charter bus that had returned from a field trip, authorities said.

Killed were D’Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr., and Devin Chandler, all of whom played football at the school, university President Jim Ryan said. “This is a sad, shocking and tragic day for our UVA community,” Ryan said at a press briefing Monday.

The search for the suspected shooter, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a student at the elite, 22,000-student school, had drawn a universitywide, shelter-in-place order that lasted about 12 hours. University Police Chief Timothy Longo received word that Jones was in custody during the briefing. “Just give me a moment to thank God, breathe a sigh of relief,” Longo said.

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