How The Impact of the UVA Shooting Can Be Felt Inside the Celtics Locker room

Celtics guard Sam Hauser, a standout at UVA, tells Full Court Press he knew one of the Cavalier football players who was killed.

There were many impacted by the shooting deaths of three University of Virginia football players on Sunday. 

You can count Boston Celtics wing Sam Hauser among them. 

Hauser, a former UVA basketball player currently with the Boston Celtics, said he knew one of the shooting victims - Lavel Davis Jr. - from his time on the Charlottesville, Virginia campus. 

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“I didn’t know him well,” Hauser told Full Court Press newsletter. “But I knew him. We had been in the same gathering, same hang-outs (at UVA).”

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The police have arrested former UVA football player Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. who faces three charges of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony, according to UVA Police Chief Timothy Longo Sr.

UVA President Jim Ryan said UVA football players Devin Chandler, Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry, were those killed by Jones. 

There were two others injured in the shooting, with one in critical condition and the other in good condition, according to Ryan who declined to identify those injured. 

 “It’s tragic what happened today,” Hauser said. “Sad day at UVA. You never expect anything like that to happen; my prayers go out to them.”