Tuskegee University has cancelled classes for the remainder of the week to give students an extended period of healing after a mass shooting on Sunday that killed 18 year old La’Tavion Johnson and injured 16 others. Tuskegee University officials announced new security measures the day after the shooting saying that people entering the campus will now be required to show ID. The university also hired a new campus security leader.
But that is not comforting to some parents. I spoke with the mother of one Tuskegee student who was so worried about her daughter, that she drove from two states away to pick her up and bring her back home. The mother did not want to be identified, but she says her daughter is still traumatized.
Less than two months after Glock switches were used in the mass shooting that killed 4 people and injured 17 others in Birmingham’s Five Points South entertainment district, 25-year-old Jaquez Myrick is facing federal charges that he possessed a handgun that had a Glock switch on it. Authorities say he was seen leaving the scene of the mass shooting at Tuskegee University on November 10 that killed one person and injured 16 others. The sound of rapid gunfire can be heard in video recorded during the shooting…