RICHMOND, Va. >> A former University of Virginia student pleaded guilty Wednesday to fatally shooting three football players and wounding two other students on the campus in 2022.

Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 25, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated malicious wounding and five counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. A four-day sentencing hearing is scheduled to open Feb. 4 in Albemarle County Circuit Court.

Prosecutors read a summary in court Wednesday of what they allege happened the day of the shooting, including chilling details not publicly released before.

While riding on the bus in the hours before the shooting, Jones texted an adult mentor he had known for several years and stated, “tonight I’m either going to hell or jail. I’m sorry,” according to the summary. The Associated Press obtained a draft copy of the summary.

Jones had been scheduled to stand trial in January on charges including aggravated murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life without parole in Virginia. The first-degree murder charges he pleaded guilty to in a plea agreement with prosecutors carry a sentence of 20 years to life.

Authorities said Jones opened fire aboard a charter bus as he and other students arrived back on campus after seeing a play and having dinner together in Washington, D.C. The shooting erupted near a parking garage and prompted a 12-hour lockdown of the Charlottesville campus until the suspect was captured. Many at the school of some 23,000 students huddled inside closets and darkened dorm rooms, while others barricaded the doors of the university’s stately academic buildings.

The university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 also endured the violent “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, which drew hundreds of white nationalists protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue. A car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one person and injuring several others.

Authorities had not released a motive in the shooting by Jones, a former member of the university’s football team. Football players Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry and Devin Chandler were killed, while a fourth team member, Mike Hollins, and another student, Marlee Morgan, were wounded.

Jones’ time on the team did not overlap with the players he shot, according to the draft copy of the prosecutors’ summary. And there was no indication Jones and the players knew each other or interacted until briefly before the shooting.

A witness previously told police that Jones had targeted specific victims.

The summary read by prosecutors said one student told authorities that on the bus ride back to campus, he heard Jones quietly talking to himself, saying, among other things, “I’m sorry if I offended you. I didn’t mean to offend you,” “I’ve been through so much in my life,” and “I don’t have any weapons,”

Jones turned irritable after the football players arrived at the start of the trip, prosecutors said. Jones also sat alone at the play and on the ride home.

A woman who had previously rejected Jones romantically had swapped phone numbers with Chandler, one of the men who was later killed, according to prosecutors.

Jones told his adult mentor via text before the shooting to, “Just tell my story. I was a good guy I never meant or initiated any harm to anyone,” prosecutors also stated.

In his final message, Jones typed, “they not getting off this bus.”

Jones also texted several family members, including his mother, to say he loved them, according to prosecutors. He also told his younger brother that something might happen, adding a siren emoji.