The Tuskegee College campus is pictured in 2023. A taking pictures on campus left one particular person useless and greater than a dozen injured.
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Authorities are investigating a taking pictures 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 Regulation Enforcement Company.
Jaquez Myrick, a 25-year-old from Montgomery, Ala., was discovered seen leaving the scene of the taking pictures and carrying a handgun with a machine gun conversion gadget, the company mentioned in an announcement. Myrick has been arrested and federally charged with possession of a machine gun.
The college mentioned legislation 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 have been wounded by gunfire and brought to space hospitals in Montgomery and Lee Counties. 4 others sustained accidents in the course of the incident not from gunfire.
The one that died was a “non-university particular person,” Tuskegee College mentioned in an announcement, nonetheless among the injured victims have been college students on the college.
The ALEA mentioned its particular brokers have been notified of the taking pictures round 1:40 a.m. on Sunday.
All lessons on the college on Monday have been canceled as authorities continues to course of the scene, the college mentioned. College grief counselors can be accessible for college students within the chapel on Monday, it added.
The taking pictures occurred as college students gathered on the campus of the traditionally Black personal college, positioned in Macon County, on Saturday night time to rejoice Tuskegee College’s a centesimal 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 taking pictures throughout 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 have been killed and eight others have been injured after photographs have been fired at a homecoming soccer celebration in central Mississippi.
On Oct. 12, on particular person died and 9 others have been injured in a taking pictures close to Tennessee State College in Nashville after the college’s homecoming celebration.