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Narduzzi offers heavy heart for victims of shooting at Virginia

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Three University of Virginia football players are confirmed dead following a horrific and tragic shooting on campus in Charlottesville, Va., on Sunday.

During a news conference on Monday, University of Virginia president Jim Ryan said junior defensive end D'Sean Perry and junior wide receivers Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler were shot and killed, with two others wounded, on a charter bus as students returned to campus from a field trip on Sunday.

The suspect, identified as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, has been taken into custody, police said.