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Shooting at Tuskegee University in Alabama leaves 1 dead, 16 injured

Authorities arrested a 25-year-old man after the shooting at the historically black university during homecoming weekend

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Police at the scene of the shooting. Photo: WSFA via AP

A shooting early Sunday during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire, authorities said. One arrest was announced hours later.

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The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said Jaquez Myrick, 25, of Montgomery, was taken into custody while leaving the scene of the campus shooting and had been found with a handgun with a machine gun conversion device.

The agency said in a statement that Myrick faces a federal charge of possession of a machine gun. It did not accuse him of using the gun in the shooting or provide additional details.

The agency did not say whether Myrick was a student at the historically black university where the shooting erupted as the school’s 100th Homecoming Week was winding down. Authorities said an 18-year-old man who died was not a university student but that some of the injured were students.

Evidence markers at the scene. Photo: WSFA via AP
Evidence markers at the scene. Photo: WSFA via AP

It was not immediately known if Myrick had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.

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