‘Broken’ parents of D’Sean Perry – one of three killed in horrific UVA shooting – speak out

‘Everything just stopped’: ‘Broken’ parents of D’Sean Perry – one of three UVA football stars killed in horrific campus shooting last month – speak out for the first time, as his mother reveals she was on the phone to him just moments before his death

By Patrick Djordjevic For Dailymail.Com

For the first time since the University of Virginia campus shootings, parents of slain football player D’Sean Perry, have publicly expressed the tragedy which befell them last month. 

Perry and teammates Devin Chandler, and Lavel Davis Jr. were all killed in the on-campus shooting November 13. 

His parents, Happy and Sean, heard their son had been killed hours after the murders, with campus police calling their family home at 2:30am.

‘I’m broken,’ Mrs. Perry told NBC Nightly News’ Kerry Sanders. 

The parents of D’Sean Perry, one of the three University of Virginia football players killed four weeks ago, are speaking publicly for the first time with NBC News today.

The family spoke with @KerryNBC about their enduring pain. pic.twitter.com/2heOBRTJKu

— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) December 15, 2022

Only moments before Perry was gunned down, he had been on the phone to his mother moments earlier. 

‘I had just gotten off the phone with him, I had just got off the phone with him.’ When she attempted to call him later, ‘his cell phone had gone dead.’

The waiting period prior to the eventual, life-shattering news was ‘dreadful’ for Perry’s parents.

This combo of undated image provided by University of Virginia Athletics shows NCAA college football players, from left, Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry. The three Virginia football players were killed in a shooting in Charlottesville, while returning from a class trip

‘Everything just stopped, for me,” Perry Sr. said. ‘And just to hear her cry, it just was another cry. It wasn’t the same cry, as losing a child.

Perry was praised for his positivity by Happy in the aftermath of his death – just a semester before his graduation.

‘Everywhere he went, he wanted to leave a little bit of his light.’

The three players players died from a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

D’Sean Perry =died in the mass attack after attending a field trip to Washington D.C. for a play

The students were shot late in the night on November 13 as they returned to campus after traveling to Washington, where they saw a play and had dinner together. 

Authorities have said that Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a UVA student and former member of the football team who was on the trip, began shooting students on the charter bus as it pulled to a stop at a campus parking garage. 

Jones, 23, faces second-degree murder and other charges stemming from the shooting, which set off a manhunt and 12-hour campus lockdown before Jones was apprehended in suburban Richmond. Jones is being held without bond. 

Christopher Darnell Jones Jr, 23, appeared in court last month via video link after being charged with three counts of second-degree murder and five counts of possession of a firearm while committing a felony

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