Father of the UVA shooting suspect says he wishes his son had called him before the deadly school shooting

• The dad of the UVA shooting suspect says he wished his son called him before the rampage.
• "I think maybe I could have talked him out of some things," the dad told NBC12.

The father of the University of Virginia shooting suspect accused of fatally gunning down three fellow students said that he wished his son had called him before the rampage.

"I don't know why he didn't call me Saturday," the suspect's dad, Christopher Darnell Jones Sr., told NBC12. "If he had called me Saturday, I think maybe I could have talked him out of some things, maybe, hopefully."

Jones Sr.'s 22-year-old son is accused of opening fire on a school bus by a parking garage on the Charlottesville campus Sunday night following a field trip.

The shooting spree left Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., and D'Sean Perry — all members of the school's football team — dead and two others injured.

Jones Sr. said he was in disbelief over the shooting.

"I can't believe it was him," he told NBC12. "I still can't believe it now."

Jones Sr. added, "I don't know what to say except I am sorry on his behalf, and I apologize. He's not a bad kid, he really isn't. I just don't know what happened."