Thousands of people have joined Virginia’s football team, coaches and staff in honoring three players who were shot dead as they returned from a field trip last weekend.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner says three University of Virginia football players who were shot on a chartered bus as they returned from a field trip to their campus each died of a gunshot wound to the head.

There is no playbook to instruct how athletic departments are to respond to the tragic death of one of their athletes.

Virginia has canceled its home football game against No. 23 Coastal Carolina scheduled for Saturday following a shooting on campus that left three players dead and another wounded.

The University of Virginia community is mourning as new details emerge about both the three football players killed in a campus shooting this week and the criminal charges the suspect faces.

Students hid inside laboratory closets and dorm rooms across the University of Virginia after getting warnings of an active shooter.

Authorities said a University of Virginia student and former member of the school’s football team fatally shot three current players as they returned from a field trip.

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