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.

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

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.”

One person was killed and a dozen others were injured in a shooting on the last day of homecoming week at Alabama’s Tuskegee University early Sunday morning, according to the university and state authorities.

Tuskegee University announced this week that it will no longer be an open campus after a mass shooting marred the school's Homecoming celebration over the weekend.

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

Following Sunday’s shooting, Tuskegee University will no longer be open to the public. The new measure was announced by Mark Brown, president and CEO of Tuskegee University, during a news conference Monday afternoon.