A shooting that marred homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and left 16 others injured, a dozen of them by gunfire, authorities said. One arrest was announced hours later.
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’s statement said Myrick faces a federal charge of possession of a machine gun.
It did not say whether he 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.
It was not immediately known if Myrick had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Twelve people were wounded by gunfire, and four others sustained injuries not related to the gunshots, the state agency said earlier. Their conditions were not immediately released.
The FBI joined the investigation and said it is seeking tips from the public, as well as any video witnesses might have. It set up a site online for people to upload videos.
Tuskegee University announced that classes on Monday have been canceled. Grief counselors will be available to help students in the university’s chapel.
