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At least one person was killed and several others injured early Sunday, November 10, morning in a shooting on the campus of Tuskegee University in the southern U.S. state of Alabama, the university said in a news release.
The deceased was not a student at the university, the news release said.
“Several others including Tuskegee University students were injured and are receiving treatment at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika and Baptist South Hospital in Montgomery,” it added.
Macon County Coroner Hal Bentley said, “quite a few people” were injured, but did not say the exact number of the injured, Xinhua news agency reported.
Among the injured, a female student was shot in the stomach.
Jaquez Myrick, 25, of Montgomery, was taken into custody while he was leaving the scene. Law enforcement officials recovered a handgun with a machine gun conversion device from him. As per reports, he faces a federal charge of possession of a machine gun.
Tuskegee celebrated its 100th homecoming on Saturday.