One people were killed in a devastating mass shooting at an Alabama HBCU that was hosting a milestone homecoming weekend on Sunday morning.
Gunfire erupted on Tuskegee University’s campus Sunday morning as the streets were filled with students, alumni and community members celebrating the school’s 100th homecoming.
Police responded to a shots fired call at 1200 West Montgomery Road, West Commons, one of the school’s apartment complexes.
The victim was identified as a “non-university individual,” the university told The Post.
Several people were injured including Tuskegee students and were transported to nearby hospitals.
The Alabama Bureau of Investigation is leading the investigation into the shooting.
Tuskegee University is located about 39 miles east of Montgomery, Ala.
It was not immediately known how many shooters or if there were any arrests made.
Roughly 47,300 people had filled Alumni Stadium, which has an official capacity of 10,000, for the university’s homecoming football game against Miles College hours before the deadly shooting.
Last year, four people were injured when a shooting broke out at an “unauthorized party,” at the West Commons prompting school officials to cancel classes, according to WSFA.
One student blamed the university officials for the safety issues that plagued the school and allowed visitors to freely enter without being checked,
“Them saying that the party was unauthorized to kind of switch the blame unto us, it’s crazy because even if it was an authorized party, with the security measures we have in place, the same thing could have happened,” Mechel Winters told the outlet.
“I just expected it to be a safe place because we are on campus, and there should be security measures in place,” she said.
