A suspect was arrested Sunday after a shooting erupted on the campus of Tuskegee University east of Montgomery, Ala., that left one person dead and 16 others injured. Authorities arrested Montgomery resident Jaquez Myrick, 25, on a federal charge of possession of a machine gun, reports USA Today. Myrick was seen leaving the scene of the shooting and was found in possession of a handgun with a machine gun conversion device, an Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokesman said. The person killed was not associated with the private, historically Black university. Tuskegee students were among the wounded.
Alabama agents were notified at around 1:40 a.m. that multiple people were shot on the Tuskegee campus, agency spokesman Sgt. Jeremy Burkett said. "Some idiots started shooting," Patrick Mardis, interim police chief for the city of Tuskegee's police, told AL.com. "You couldn’t get the emergency vehicles in there, there were so many people there." The shooting occurred on campus near West Commons. Four people were injured at an unrelated shooting there in September 2023. The university canceled Monday classes and said grief counselors would be available to students.
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