Police Make Arrest in Tuskegee Homecoming Shooting That Left 1 Dead, 16 Injured 

Tuskegee, Ala.
November 11, 2024

While many are mourning today, police have announced an arrest in the weekend Tuskegee University Homecoming shooting that occurred early Saturday morning.

Law enforcement has identified 25-year-old Jaquez Myrick of Montgomery as the suspect in the case.

Police now say that Myrick was in possession of a handgun with a switch device which turns a semi-automatic firearm into a fully automatic weapon allowing a person to empty a gun’s magazine in a few seconds.
This conversion device is illegal.

At this time Myrick is charged with unlawful possession of a machine gun, but other charges are pending.

At around 1:30 in the morning, gunshots rang out and police from multiple law enforcement, fire departments, and ambulances rushed to the scene.

According to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, at approximately 1:40 am, Special Agents received reports of multiple people shot on Tuskegee University’s Campus.

When officers arrived, they observed an 18-year-old lying on the ground unresponsive, they were pronounced dead on the scene.

The victim of the shooting was not a university student, but some of those who were injured were.

“The parents of the deceased individual have been notified. Several others including Tuskegee University students were injured and were treated at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika and Baptist South Hospital in Montgomery,” Tuskegee University released in a statement.

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