Mother of UVA shooting survivor speaks out

[@NOHSAL]

Tell... Teach... SHOW your children the consequences of bullying. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 to everyone.

[@dorothypatterson8761]

How do u know that's true about bullying. Beside he was and ex player also this Man had some MENTAL issue.

[@carolineshaw1532]

Prayers for your son, & a speedy recovery. 🙏❤💯

[@heathermetz3974]

Strong momma and a strong son!

[@AddisonShade]

Mike Holland Jr could teach Uvalde PD a few things. An unarmed college student didn’t hesitate under a deadly threat. So grateful he’s still with us.

[@jenleigh342]

WHEN will these young BOYS STOP SHOOTING EACH OTHER? Where are they GETTING GUNS AND WHY ARE THEY BEING USED ?

[@barbarapeller]

There has been so many schools and college shooting that I cannot keep up, Lord have mercy on us all!

[@silentmajority8365]

and YT not doing the majority no matter what the libomoMEDia says

[@DixonCider1234]

Why are they interviewing the mother?

[@ruthiesmith6770]

COMPASSION FOR THE FAMILIES

[@artisanhome8980]

There is no excuse for what this student did, which was unacceptable and horrendous. However, more colleges and universities could do a lot more to support first-generation college students who come from at-risk, dysfunctional home environments. When at-risk students attend college, they have no idea what they're doing. They don't know how to relate to college, relate to professors and other college students. Christopher Jones, Jr., the shooter, hadn't been living with his parents since he was 16. His father, who was interviewed about the shooting, seemed apathetic. His father even trivialized his son's cries for help before the shooting occurred. It takes a lot for children to come to their parents for help, and Christopher told his father that he was being bullied by other students and he felt paranoid. All signs point to a home that was completely unsupportive and dysfunctional. Christopher basically had no parents. He was living with his grandmother prior to going to college, which is typical in at-risk communities. I was an educator in predominately black schools for many years. Witnessing the rampant dysfunction in many of today's families, It is only by God's grace that more students don't go this way. There are far too many people without values and standards. People are not having kids (on purpose). They are not living right and respecting the difference between right and wrong. Students are outrageously disrespectful towards teachers and other students in many of today's schools, from elementary school and beyond. Adults don't want to act mature anymore and do grown-up things, like get married, PLAN for a family, and set expectations and goals for themselves and their kids. People are making poor choices and children today are showing us (in their behavior) the outcome of a degenerate society.

[@brianazmy3156]

Pretty sure that having a gun on campus is a no-no these days.

[@silentmajority8365]

This could never have happened when we turned fire hoses on them🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Just saying

[@artisanhome8980]

I'd like to speak directly to today's parents. WHERE ARE YOU??? There are far too many absentee parents. Even parents living with their kids are not available and present for their kids. We need to start putting these parents in prison, right alongside their raging kids. If you don't want to deal with your kids, outside of prison, then maybe you'll want to finally deal with your kids in a jail cell! These lousy, good-for-nothing parents, who are just getting knocked up, leaving their kids with grandparents, are ghetto and ratchet. America desperately needs HIGHER-QUALITY PARENTS. Colleges and universities could also do a lot more to support first-generation college students who come from these at-risk, dysfunctional home environments. RAISE YOUR KIDS!!!! BE A RESPONSIBLE PARENT. This isn't fair to unleash raging, angry, and unsupportive kids onto everyone else in this world. If you don't want to raise kids and you're not financially capable of even taking care of yourself, then please USE PROTECTION and BIRTH CONTROL. Practice abstinence, since you should be focusing on continuing your education in college, networking with other professionals in your field, acquiring marketable skills, and getting a CAREER that pays above minimum wage. There should be NO TIME for having sex anyway, with a busy schedule. Then GET MARRIED and PLAN for a family, so that it isn't a "surprise" and you're well prepared for your kid to come into the world. Set goals and establish PRIORITIES!!!

[@User0934-x6k]

Stay strong hoos ❤️ Rip

[@User0934-x6k]

You got this Mike hollins

[@silentmajority8365]

They are dead strength gone

[@stephanieredden8861]

I'll pray too. Cavalier strong.

[@silentmajority8365]

They are dead no strength

[@stephanieredden8861]

@@silentmajority8365 supporting the family of the precious young lives lost. How cold that you can't do the same.

[@samanthab1923]

Prayers for all 🙏🏻

[@lookingfor-work2015]

Can't believe everything you see...

[@pocmyway8631]

1:05 but her family spokesman said he was sitting towards front of the bus. Thought the bus hadn't even stopped yet?

[@AmericanTeacher-USA]

What is a FORMER player doing on a field trip with CURRENT students ????? WHY was he inside that bus with that group ????

[@justhomework6786]

It was a fieldtrip to DC, not sport related

[@georgeroberts469]

He's was still a student.

[@silentmajority8365]

We literally fought to ride dad bus now we shooting our way off La Rosa Parks James

[@silentmajority8365]

@@kristianluciano Teachers can't teach primates

[@silentmajority8365]

@@georgeroberts469 Studying Trigger nometry?

[@Carolina_Panthers145]

My condolences 🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@deborahstancil4041]

Genesis 9:6 says man who sheds another man's blood shall his blood also be shed it's an Abomination to the Lord and the Killer will not enter heaven

[@nuracaicedo2632]

😢💔🌎🤲🙏

[@timcoleman3842]

These are not children

[@jadadiaz5772]

only in parklan i saw soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much hate on the parents.

[@chazmann108]

This is another atrocity where young people have been massacred. Did the shooter have this gun on the bus? Did he take it into the performance venue? Are there no measures in place to prevent something like this? The shooter had a police record and NO ONE SAID ANYTHING??? HOW was the shooter permitted to register for classes? When you are a student at UVa a HOLD is placed on your account for something as minor as a data point missing on your health insurance or if you have even a tiny balance on your financial record!!! Yet this shooter who left the scene of an accident (Hit and Run) and who had gun charges on his record was permitted to live with and attend classes with innocent students. THREE DEAD KIDS with everything to look forward to have been sacrificed to a failed system. UVa did NOT act when they should have for reasons unknown. There is a lapse of 'transparency' and parents must understand that it's open season on young people.

[@barbarapeller]

"Forgiveness" is a powerful tool that only a strong Christian knows how to use it.

[@clashon4life843]

You know that’s a Religious Statement 🤔 Because Anybody can forgive And they don’t have to be A Christian! Why do people attach forgiveness to being a Christian???! That’s so narrow minded thinking! Smh 🤦

[@barbarapeller]

@@clashon4life843, and because your mind is so, "Narrow-minded" you will never understand. Forgiveness is hard for any person and even more so for the world and it is why Jesus often taught forgiveness to the church/Christian and among His followers the importance of forgiveness. The world does not always understand "Forgiveness" and why I made the statement, "Forgiveness is a powerful tool" and I will not take it back. If it is hard for a Christian, what do you think it is for the world? And you fool yourself if you think otherwise. "For if you forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses" (Matthew 6: 14-15).(Mark 11:25) I forgive you of your ignorance, and I do not say that to offend you.

[@HunderbarDachs]

aren't you special.

[@burosangi3855]

@@barbarapeller Not tryna be argumentative but why was angel Lucifer not forgiven

[@jannoetrich2899]

@@burosangi3855 The Great Almighty God will forgive Lucifer as he does anyone that ask; that truly want to be. God cannot force him to change and as we can see he continues to be deceitful and wicked. 1 Joh 1:9 Is. 14:12-15 Rev. 12:9 Rev 20:1-3 Rev 20:7-10 Even after being locked away; he will go out still to do evil. There is no place in the Bible that says God will not forgive therefore if you hear that it's a false teaching.

[@muymal9678]

When he loves you he loves you when he bullying you he hates you

[@deborahstancil4041]

My Christian heart bleeds for these three strong superior athletes that have been brutally murdered stencils how to pray that the Lord is holding them tight that's our families and friends and any of us who are reading this article that we pray that the family and friends know the Lord trust the Lord be comforted in the word the Lord will comfort you his word is truth I'm very sorry for your pain I pray for you and your family

[@jakesnake9586]

Always the same people !!

[@jameshurst8881]

Probably some type of bullying this kid didn't come to play.

[@NiyaImoni]

Please stop the bullying narrative, it’s still no reason to shoot a innocent person.

[@kevo6776]

@@NiyaImoni people who pick on other people aren’t “innocent”. You have no remorse for the victim who snapped on his bullies just because he’s a guy. Men have emotions as well.

[@NiyaImoni]

@@kevo6776 I have no remorse for the idiot because he took his anger out of INNOCENT PEOPLE who had nothing to do with the situation. No one on that bus asked for that traumatic event. Please have that same energy when little Timmy does the same. We’re talking about a 23 year old not a 16 year old boy.

[@kevo6776]

@@NiyaImoni If they didn’t bully him, he wouldn’t have done what he did regardless(even if innocent ppl got caught in the middle of the bs). I’m black myself, so bringing up “little Timmy” is off-topic. Nobody should be bullying anybody at any age. Some ppl are immature regardless of age and that’s the main issue.

[@NiyaImoni]

@@kevo6776 oh okay the Timmy part is very relevant like I said have that same energy when it does happen.

[@j.103]

Are they saying the shooter was bullied? I hope not but even so, get a harder shell and don’t let have anyone have that kind of power over you…..so sad such young men…..

[@eileencastillo6323]

Besides being way too little and too late, that is just plain wrong advice. Bullies are cowards who choose easy targets. They do not choose targets that are not going to take any crap from them. Duhhhh Think about your own friends or family or coworkers. You can name yourself which people aren't going to put up with a bully's BS and which ones are going to avoid confrontation. A bully recognizes that faster than you do. Most of the time targets take their own lives. Why should anyone change who they are to accommodate a bully?? The bully's behavior needs to change, not the target's. The bully has psychological issues of inferiority. I would not know how to eliminate bullies and their psychological issues that wound their targets SO severely that they take their own lives and the lives of others. I do know that the profound injustice and audacity of blaming the target, only isolates them ever further, compounds and accelerates the disasterous outcome of bullying situations. Silent witnesses who do and say nothing to the bully (guess why) and then proceed to actually turn on the target like you have, are contributers to outcomes like this. What happens when witnesses defend a target and stand up to a bully? Maybe you should find that out.

[@j.103]

@@eileencastillo6323 They will keep bullying you if they are getting what they want……for the person to react…..laugh at the fool and walk away…they hate being ignored …..different story if they lay hands on the person….the people who pick on others has bigger problems that should be addressed….

[@eileencastillo6323]

@@j.103 Absolutely.

[@coolkidd151]

While the shooters actions are inexcusable and extreme Note the girl in the other interview states that the shooter went after “L” which the mother here conviently forgets his name. Let’s see what comes out about “L” in the trial.

[@pocmyway8631]

Don't forget that same girl in a NEW interview today leaves all that Out but says the bus hadn't come to a complete stop yet.

[@PaiMei667]

🤣👉🇺🇸

[@collabomanagementinc5543]

They protected their money makers. Their quote unquote star athletes. This is nothing new. This young man was interested in things like runway modeling that would make some insecure heterosexual young men question his sexual preference. I’m sure that this will eventually tie into this court case. The hazing, continued harassment with no justifiable resolve even after going through the proper channels is outrageous. Then the audacity of the media to broadcast his criminal record even after he has satisfied the courts. He was released back into civilian population and was accepted into the university after the background check was verified. The young lady is only expressing her personal experience with these guys that lost their lives. However behind closed doors and out of the spotlight they became a nightmare for this young man. Plainly put they pushed him over the edge. This goes to show you how people can fool many and fake it all the way to the top until they meet someone who can see through their facade. This is very sad all around that four families are forever changed. Furthermore my prayer is that we began to improve our social construct in the upcoming generations. If we don’t soon you will indeed begin to see an increase of these types of tragedies.

[@bizness4272]

No dear - this is just classic N'gr first 48 -Collegiate Edition

[@bremass851]

She says we have to forgive my question is. Why do we have to forgive? You shouldn't have to forgive if you don't feel like the perpetrator deserve forgiveness. 🤔

[@ttrue8]

If you want to be forgiven for your shortcomings, great or small, you have to forgive others.

[@bremass851]

@@ttrue8 So lets say your family was brutally murdered by some serial killer are you telling me your going to forgive that person? I find that hard to believe that you would.

[@ttrue8]

@@bremass851 Forgiveness is rooted in my Christian faith. I’m not saying it was be easy to do, but I would definitely have to forgive them. I’ve done things in my life that require forgiveness so who am I to withhold it from others? That’s hypocritical.

[@bremass851]

@@ttrue8 The Christian God is a monster nobody in there right mind should worship. Thats my opinion just because you have faith in god doesn't mean that its real.

[@ttrue8]

@@bremass851 Ok

[@4u4real11]

Girl get you a new weave

[@burosangi3855]

Get ma meat out ya mouf

[@NiyaImoni]

Her son is on his death bed and you’re worried about a weave? Please stfu

[@stevenicholson7488]

Looks like a fight broke out.

[@silentmajority8365]

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