The Tuskegee College campus is pictured in 2023. A capturing on campus left one particular person useless and greater than a dozen injured.
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Authorities are investigating a capturing that occurred early Sunday throughout homecoming celebrations on the Tuskegee College campus within the metropolis of Tuskegee, Ala., that left one particular person useless and 16 injured, in accordance the Alabama Legislation Enforcement Company.
Jaquez Myrick, a 25-year-old from Montgomery, Ala., was discovered seen leaving the scene of the capturing and carrying a handgun with a machine gun conversion gadget, the company mentioned in a press release. Myrick has been arrested and federally charged with possession of a machine gun.
The college mentioned regulation enforcement has secured the scene and the ALEA’s Bureau of Investigations is investigating.
An 18-year-old died on the scene. Twelve of the injured victims had been wounded by gunfire and brought to space hospitals in Montgomery and Lee Counties. 4 others sustained accidents through the incident not from gunfire.
The one that died was a “non-university particular person,” Tuskegee University said in a press release, nevertheless a few of the injured victims had been college students on the faculty.
The ALEA mentioned its particular brokers had been notified of the capturing round 1:40 a.m. on Sunday.
All courses on the college on Monday have been canceled as authorities continues to course of the scene, the varsity mentioned. College grief counselors can be obtainable for college kids within the chapel on Monday, it added.
The capturing occurred as college students gathered on the campus of the traditionally Black personal college, situated in Macon County, on Saturday evening to rejoice Tuskegee College’s a hundredth homecoming.
The Alabama Bureau of Investigations mentioned it is working with federal, state and native authorities within the investigation.
The incident follows a sequence of different lethal shootings at homecoming occasions final month. A shooting during homecoming weekend at Albany State College in Georgia on Oct. 19 left one particular person useless and a number of others injured. That very same day, three individuals had been killed and eight others had been injured after shots were fired at a homecoming soccer celebration in central Mississippi.
On Oct. 12, on particular person died and 9 others had been injured in a shooting close to Tennessee State College in Nashville after the varsity’s homecoming celebration.
