Suspect arrested for shooting at black university in US

(CLO) A shooting early Sunday morning at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and 16 others injured. An arrest of the suspect was announced hours later.

Alabama law enforcement said Jaquez Myrick, 25, of Montgomery, was arrested as he left the scene of the campus shooting and was found to have a handgun with a machine gun conversion device. The agency said in a statement that Myrick faces federal charges for being a felon in possession of a machine gun.

The agency did not say whether Myrick was a student at the historically black university, where the shooting occurred as the school’s 100th Homecoming was coming to an end. Authorities said the 18-year-old who died was not a student, but some of those injured were.

Scene of the shooting. Photo: AP

Twelve people were wounded by gunfire, and four others suffered injuries unrelated to gunfire, state officials said. Their conditions were not immediately available.

Tuskegee City Police Chief Patrick Mardis said the injured included a female student shot in the abdomen and a male student shot in the arm.

Mardis said city police were responding to an unrelated double shooting off campus when they received a call about the shooting at the West Commons apartment complex on the university campus.

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Sunday's shooting comes just over a year after four people were injured in a shooting at Tuskegee University's student housing complex in September 2023.

About 3,000 students attend the university, located about 40 miles (64 km) from the Alabama state capital of Montgomery.

The university was the first historically black university to be recognized as a registered National Historic Landmark in 1966. According to the school's website, the school was also recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1974.

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