After 1 Killed in Tuskegee University Shooting, State Lawmaker Calls for Enhanced Safety Measures on Campuses

By  JEFF MARTIN | Associated Press A shooting early Sunday during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire, authorities said. One arrest was announced hours later. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said Jaquez Myrick, 25, of Montgomery, was taken into custody while leaving the scene of the campus shooting and had been found with a handgun with a machine gun conversion device. The agency said in a statement that Myrick faces a federal charge of possession of a machine gun. It did not accuse him of using the gun in the shooting or provide additional details. The agency did not say whether Myrick was a student at the historically Black university where the shooting erupted as the school’s 100th Homecoming Week was winding down. Authorities said an 18-year-old man who died was not a university student but that some of the injured were students. It was not immediately known if Myrick had an attorney who could speak on his behalf. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro In a statement late Sunday, Alabama Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, called for enhance safety measures on college campuses. “This is a...