Five life sentences and an additional 23 years.

That’s the prison term awaiting the young man who opened fire in 2022 on a bus returning to the University of Virginia from a Washington, D.C., field trip, killing three and wounding two.

The sentence, delivered Friday evening in an Albemarle County courtroom, capped a weeklong hearing offering conflicting accounts of what drove Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. to murder three unsuspecting football players.

Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.