Tuskegee University is hiring eight police officers for round-the-clock patrols of the campus following the early Sunday morning mass shooting that resulted in one death and injuries to 16 others, the university’s president announced Thursday.

Tuskegee University President Mark A. Brown called a 3 p.m. news conference Thursday to announce plans for increased security on what is now a “closed campus.”

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.