A Virginia judge on Friday handed down five life sentences to former University of Virginia student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., closing a wrenching week of testimony nearly two years after a shooting that devastated the Cavaliers' football program and the broader campus community.

Jones, 26, received a life term for each of the three players he killed -- Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D'Sean Perry -- as well as for two surviving victims, running back Mike Hollins and student Marlee Morgan. Additional firearm convictions added more than two decades to the punishment. The sentence followed Jones' guilty plea last November to first-degree murder , aggravated malicious wounding and related gun charges.

Judge Cheryl Higgins delivered the decision after five days of emotional tes

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