Police have not released the name of the victim, but did confirm the student is from Mobile.
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A lockdown on the Miles College campus has been lifted after a student was shot and killed on campus, according to authorities.
Miles College spokeswoman Alicia Johnson tells Al.com (http://bit.ly/1Re0Sdt) that the shooting happened late Tuesday night at an off-campus apartment building.
She says one person was in custody early Wednesday.
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“We did ask students to stay in their rooms and exercise precautionary measures, ” Johnson said. The historically black college campus is located in Fairfield, Alabama, six miles west of the state’s largest city of Birmingham. The Fairfield Police Department has launched an investigation into the shooting.
