Tuskegee University student Sid Guynn hid under a car when he heard the gunshots that ripped across his Alabama campus amid homecoming celebrations, then ran back to his dorm, frightened by what sounded to him like a machine gun.

Tuskegee University’s 100th homecoming festivities were disrupted by gunfire that left people on-campus scrambling for safety during the overnight hours on Sunday (Nov. 10). The Alabama Bureau of Investigations is conducting an active investigation.

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 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,

An 18-year-old "non-university individual" was killed and students were injured Sunday morning, the university said.

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.

A Montgomery man arrested following the mass shooting at Tuskegee University initially denied firing his weapon, but later told federal investigators he did fire his gun but did not shoot anyone, according to federal court records.