The shooting came as Tuskegee’s 100th Homecoming Week was winding down. Its football team has that Saturday played Fairfield-based HBCU Miles College. It is not clear yet what led to the shooting, which sent a large crowd scrambling and was captured on several videos posted on social media.

It was just too many people here,” one student said. ”And a lot of people who weren’t supposed to be here made their way onto campus.”

A Tuskegee University student says he hid under a car when he heard the gunshots that ripped across his Alabama campus.

"Students are our greatest asset, and we will do everything possible to protect them," the university's president said.

A newly unsealed federal complaint says a man accused of having a machine gun at Tuskegee University admitted to firing his weapon during a weekend shooting, but denied shooting at anyone