A suspect was arrested after an early Sunday morning shooting incident at Tuskegee University (TU) in east-central Alabama claimed a life and left 16 others injured, state authorities said.
Jaquez Myrick, 25, of Montgomery was leaving the scene of the shooting on TU’s campus while carrying a handgun with a machine gun conversion device before being apprehended, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) stated. Myrick faces a federal charge of Possession of a Machine Gun, ALEA added. ALEA’s Special Agents reportedly learned of the shooting at about 1:40 a.m.
An 18-year-old victim was pronounced dead at the scene, while the 16 who were injured were taken to area hospitals, according to the outlet. Twelve of those 16 persons sustained gunshot injuries while those of the remaining four were attributed to other causes, ALEA added.
While ALEA did not name the deceased, the Macon County…
