CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement to the families of three football players killed in a 2002 campus shooting.
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The families of DeSean Perry, LaVell Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler will each receive $2 million in settlements, according to The Washington Post. The settlements were approved Friday by Albemarle County Circuit Court Judge Claude V. Worrell II.
Perry, Davis and Perry were killed in a shooting that happened on campus on Nov. 13, 2022, WVIR reported.
According to The Washington Post, lawyers said a $3 million settlement has already been reached for two students injured in the shooting.
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“This settlement is just one step for the families. There is much more work to be done,” Kimberly Wald, an attorney representing the families, told The Associated Press. “If there is one lesson to be learned from this report, we need to know it now. We need to save lives now.”
“The most important thing for these families, what will really give them closure, is to know what happened to their sons, and that's in the reports that the University of Virginia and the state government are withholding. It's time for the University of Virginia and the state government to release their reports,” Perry family attorney Elliot Buckner told WVIR.
The news outlet said the unreleased report is a detailed examination of the events leading up to the shooting.
“We will forever remember the impact Devin, LaBelle and DeShawn had on our community and we are grateful for the way they stood before us in the classroom, on the football field and uplifted the University of Virginia,” University of Virginia President Robert Hardy and Chancellor Ryan said in a statement Friday, according to the Associated Press.
