A shooting during the welcome activities weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama resulted in one death and 16 injuries, according to authorities. Twelve of the individuals suffered gunshot wounds. Jaquez Myrick, 25, from Montgomery, was detained while leaving the scene, and a gun with a conversion device to a machine gun was found in his possession. The 18-year-old deceased was not a student, but some of the injured were.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives joined the investigation without providing further details. The victim's parents were notified and an autopsy was planned. The Tuskegee police chief mentioned that there was one student wounded in the stomach and another student with an arm injury. The police department was responding to an unrelated double shooting outside the campus when the alert was received.
The FBI joined the investigation, requesting information from the public and any relevant video. Several injured individuals were receiving treatment at medical centers in Opelika and Montgomery. The university suspended classes, offering grief counselors to affected students. The Tuskegee community, with about 9,000 residents, was impacted by these tragic events without further details on the condition of the injured.