The city of Richmond - the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War - removed its last city-owned Confederate statue Monday, more than two years after it began to purge itself of what many saw as painful symbols of racial oppression.

A witness who saw a University of Virginia student open fire onboard a bus returning from a field trip told police the gunman targeted specific victims - many of them football players - shooting one as he slept, a prosecutor said in court Wednesday.