Unauthorized Party at West Commons: Gunfire Injures Campus Visitors and Sparks HBCU Security Debate

Two campus visitors were treated at area hospitals for gunshot wounds, while two Tuskegee students were injured trying to flee the scene; the two injured students were later released and returned to campus. Classes were canceled the following Monday. The Tuskegee University Police Department worked with the Macon County Sheriff's Office and other local law enforcement on the investigation, and the university provided counseling resources. Publicly available reporting did not indicate that arrests had been made specifically in connection with this September 24, 2023 incident. (A much larger and unrelated shooting at Tuskegee's 100th homecoming on November 10, 2024 left one dead and 16 injured and led to the federal arrest of Jaquez Myrick on a machine-gun-conversion charge.)