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.

A man accused of having a machine gun at Tuskegee University during a hail of gunfire that left one man dead and at least 16 others hurt told a federal agent that he fired his weapon during the shooting,

A federal investigator said in a affidavit Tuesday that a man charged in connection with the fatal mass shooting at Tuskegee University on Saturday told him that he fired his gun but denied aiming at anyone.