RICHMOND, Va. — Students on the University of Virginia returned to class Wednesday for the primary time since a taking pictures occurred on grounds Nov. 13, killing three college students and injuring two others.

Makeshift memorials with flowers, candles and playing cards are sprinkled throughout UVA, remembering D’Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr., and Devin Chandler, all gamers on the UVA Football group.

The night time they had been killed, the college was placed on lockdown for practically a dozen hours, as police looked for the taking pictures suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a scholar and present participant.

“I’m really shaken up. It’s been the longest week in university history it feels like. It’s only been a couple of days, but it feels like weeks,” mentioned Renee Grutzik, a second 12 months scholar.

“Just seeing people on grounds, you can feel how different it is,” she mentioned. “Everyone is feeling the loss and you can just see it around Grounds.”

Despite the unusual feeling of returning, Grutzik mentioned she’s felt supported by her friends and college.

“Nobody has been left untouched. Every organization is doing the best they can do to make sure that their members are doing alright,” she mentioned.

Dennis Ting, a 2L scholar at UVA Law, mentioned returning to class has been cathartic for a few of his friends.

“It’s definitely pretty surreal,” he mentioned. “I think part of me was expecting, are people just going to pretend like this didn’t happen? And I think it’s the complete opposite. I think people wanted to reflect, want to talk about this. It’s a shared trauma that we have.”

Mark Lorenzoni, the co-founder of Ragged Mountain Running, which has sat on the Corner, a line of companies neighboring UVA, is understood for using college students.

Since its begin 41 years in the past, Lorenzoni mentioned its employed roughly 1,000 college students.

“We told the kids, you don’t need to come into work. If you don’t feel like you want to, you’re totally fine. And they all showed up. And they wanted to talk,” Lorenzoni mentioned.

“Each of them came in, wanted to talk. I hugged them, arm around them, and just listened to their experiences as they laid out what they’ve gone through. And I must say they’ve been traumatized,” Lorenzoni mentioned.

Over the previous 4 many years, Lorenzoni mentioned he is watched the college take care of quite a few tragedies.

“This has been different. This is all of them. Every one of them has been affected,” he mentioned. “The university has shined through this. They have shown that they really truly are a university that deeply cares. You can see this camaraderie, this unification of the student body over the last two days. That’s been really, really special.”

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