A Mass Shooting Broke Out At A Tuskegee University Homecoming Event Leaving 1 Dead, 16 Injured

Posted • November 11, 2024: A Homecoming Week shooting at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and 16 others injured, 12 of them by gunfire, school officials said. An arrest was announced hours later on Sunday. The shooting occurred on campus and happened as the historically Black university's 100th Homecoming Week was winding down. The victim of the shooting, an 18-year-old male, was not a university student, but some of those who were injured were. Twelve people were wounded by gunfire, and four others sustained injuries not related to the gunshots, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said in a Sunday afternoon update. An autopsy on the person killed was planned at the state's forensic center in Montgomery, Macon County Coroner Hal Bentley told The Associated Press on Sunday. The city's police chief, Patrick Mardis, said the injured included a female student who was shot in the stomach and a male student who was shot in the arm.