A University of Virginia football player who suffered significant injuries in the shooting that claimed the lives of three of his teammates has been discharged.
Running back Mike Hollins‘ mother Brenda Hollins tweeted early on Monday: “Mike has been discharged!!! HALLELUJAH.”
She pleaded for continual intercession “while he heals and adjusts to his new existence.” Additionally, she requested prayers for the three athletes’ families who lost their lives in the incident on November 13. They require our help, she wrote.
Mike Hollins was reportedly discharged from the University of Virginia Medical Center on Sunday, according to Joe Gipson, a representative for the Louisiana legal firm Brenda Hollins works for. For the upcoming three weeks, Mike Hollins will be staying with his family at an off-site facility close to the hospital for follow-up medical appointments, according to Gipson.
When Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry, and Devin Chandler were returning to campus following a field trip to watch a play in Washington, they were shot and killed on a charter bus. According to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, each person died from a head wound caused by a gunshot.
Authorities said that University of Virginia student and former football player Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., who was travelling with the group, started shooting at passengers as the bus came to a stop in a campus parking garage.
A witness reportedly informed police the shooter targeted specific victims, killing one of them while he was sleeping, the prosecutor claimed in court last week. Two more pupils suffered injuries. Marlee Morgan, a student, was recently discharged from the hospital. The Hollins family’s representative stated last week that Hollins, who was shot in the back, underwent many operations and was recovering well.
The shooting, which resulted in a manhunt and a 12-hour campus lockdown, has Jones, 23, facing second-degree murder charges as well as other offences. Jones was eventually found in a suburb of Richmond. Jones is detained without posting a bond.
Authorities haven’t disclosed a reason.
