CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Sheri and Andrew Newton held hands and bowed their heads as they walked down the steps toward the University of Virginia’s football stadium, where hundreds of flower bouquets and handwritten notes had been laid near the north gate.
Ever since the scope of the tragedy that had befallen this campus became clear on Monday, this had become the place for the community to honor Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry, the three Virginia football players who were shot and killed Sunday night on a bus that had just returned from a class field trip to Washington, D.