One person died and 16 were injured, 12 of them by gunshots, during a shooting at Tuskegee University in Alabama, United States, in the early hours of this morning, the authorities said.
The fatal shooting victim, an 18-year-old man, was not a college student, but some of the injured were.
No arrests have been announced.
In addition to the 12 people who were shot, four others suffered injuries unrelated to the shooting, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said.
City police were responding to an unrelated double shooting when they received the call about the shooting at the university, city police Chief Patrick Mardis said.
The shooting occurred as the historically black university's 100th Homecoming Week was wrapping up.
The Alabama State Bureau of Investigation is investigating.
Alumni Association President Amare Hardee said the shooting has shaken the entire university community.
"This senseless act of violence has touched each and every one of us, directly or indirectly," he said at the school's convocation this morning.
Today's shooting comes just over a year after four people were injured in a shooting at a Tuskegee University student housing complex.
In that shooting, two campus visitors were shot and two students were injured as they tried to leave the building, which campus officials described as an "unauthorized party" in September 2023, the Montgomery Advertiser reported.
Tuskegee University was the first historically black university, and was designated a National Landmark in 1966.
It was also designated a National Historic Site in 1974, according to the school's website.
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