The University of Virginia has awarded posthumous degrees to Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry, who were shot and killed last month in Charlottesville, officials said.
at John Paul Jones Arena on Nov. 19 to honor the victims. All three of the slain students were in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Chandler, 20, a sophomore from Huntersville, N.C., majored in American studies. Davis, 20, a junior from Ridgeville, S.C., majored in African American and African studies. Perry, 22, a senior from Miami, double majored in studio art and in African American and African studies. Members of the football team, as well as U-Va. President James E. Ryan and Director of Athletics Carla Williams, attended the funerals“It was a great honor to be a part of presenting these diplomas to the families of Devin, Lavel and D’Sean,” Williams said in a statement.
It is not unprecedented for the university to award posthumous degrees, officials said. Those awarded in this case were all Bachelor of Arts degrees. Officials said a printed diploma was presented to the Davis family in person on Nov. 30 at his service in South Carolina. Two other framed diplomas were sent recently, officials said, to the Chandler and Perry families.
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