An 18-year-old was killed and at least 16 other people, including students, were injured when a barrage of gunfire erupted early Sunday on the campus of Tuskegee University in Alabama, marring the school’s centennial homecoming festivities, authorities said.
No arrests have been made in the shooting, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) said Sunday afternoon.
The shooting unfolded around 1:40 a.m. on the Macon County campus as homecoming activities, including a football game Saturday afternoon between Tuskegee and Alabama’s Miles College, were winding down, officials said.
According to radio transmissions from police officers sent to the campus to investigate the shooting, multiple shooters are suspected to have been involved.
“There’s going to be two shooters at this time, maybe more,” one officer said in a radio call, according to transmissions provided by Broadcastify.
The on-campus shooting resulted in “the death of a non-university individual,” the university said in a statement released early Sunday.
“The parents of this individual have been notified,” the statement read. “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.”
State police said Sunday afternoon that the person killed in