Three University of Virginia football players killed in a mass shooting on the Charlottesville campus have been honored with posthumous degrees.
December 6, 2022, 5:06 PMFootball player, Lavel Davis Jr, D'Sean Perry, and Devin Chandler are pictured in the Virginia Sports website in this undated image.Three University of Virginia football players killed in a mass shooting on the Charlottesville campus have been honored with posthumous degrees from the university.were fatally shot on the night of Nov. 13 while on a bus that had just returned from a class trip to see a play in Washington, D.C.
Chandler was a second-year student majoring in American studies. American studies professor Jack Hamilton tweeted that he helped Chandler declare his major, "which he was really excited about." Williams said, after talking with Davis' family at his funeral, "it became obvious" "why earning his degree from the University of Virginia was so important to" him. "He worked extremely hard for it," Williams said in a statement Monday.
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