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Tuskegee University shooting: 1 dead, several injured in chaotic scene
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Tuskegee University shooting: 1 dead, several injured in chaotic scene

One person was killed on the campus of Tuskegee University after dozens of gunshots were reported after midnight.

According to Tuskegee spokeswoman Thonnia Lee, the person who was killed was not associated with the university.

Several other people, including Tuskegee students, were injured and are being treated at East Alabama Medical Center and Baptist South Hospital.

Macon County Coroner Hal Bentley said “quite a few people” were injured, but he did not know the exact number. Bentley said he could not yet release information about the person killed.

A female student was shot in the stomach, Tuskegee Police Chief Mardis said. “I helped her load.” One student was shot in the arm, and Mardis said he did not have information on a third person who was injured.

In videos on social media, rapid gunfire can be heard as people crouch on the ground and behind cars at West Commons.

City police were at the scene of an unrelated double shooting in which two people suffered minor injuries at a Texaco station when officers learned of the shooting at the West Commons apartments on campus around 9:30 p.m., Mardis said .

“Some idiots started shooting,” Mardis said. “You couldn’t get the emergency vehicles in there, there were so many people there.”

Tuskegee celebrated its 100th homecoming on Saturday.

Emergency responders, along with campus and local law enforcement, secured the scene. The Alabama Bureau of Investigation is conducting an active investigation.

According to Lee, the University is in the process of finalizing student accountability and notifying parents.

No one is in custody and it was not immediately clear what led to the shooting, Mardis said.

The State Bureau of Investigation is assisting in the investigation.

“It’s horrible,” said Mardis, who is the former campus police chief.

“I was always on pins and needles when I was there. You see it happening everywhere. It happened everywhere but us.”

This story will be updated with more information.