FILE – This booking photo released by the Henrico County Sheriff’s Office shows Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., who was arrested on Nov. 14, 2022, in the fatal shooting of three football players at the University of Virginia. (Henrico County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A former University of Virginia student was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for fatally shooting three football players and wounding two other students on the campus in 2022.

Judge Cheryl Higgins gave Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., who had been on the football team, the maximum possible sentence after listening to five days of testimony. Jones pleaded guilty last year .

The penalty includes five life sentences, one each for the killings of Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’S

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