His voice was halting. His words were haunting.
Tony Elliott is a young, first-year college football coach who on Tuesday was at the worst kind of news conference, trying to make sense of the senseless, trying to find comfort amid the crushing chaos.
On Sunday night, three of his players were shot to death on a school-chartered bus as it returned to the University of Virginia from attending a play in Washington D.C.
Police said a fellow student began shooting as the bus, with approximately 25 students from a single class on board, pulled into a parking garage.