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.

The security overhaul, according to Tuskegee University President Mark A. Brown, will also include cameras and metal detectors at the historically Black university.

Students will return for in-person learning on Tuesday while a “day of healing” on campus is scheduled for Monday, announced Brown.

“Tuskegee University: we are as strong as the bricks our students used to build the buildings over 100 years ago. Buildings that still stand today. It is in this spirit of strength that we will not allow the criminals that invaded our sacred space to prevail,” he said. We will continue to take care of and educate our students.”

On Monday, the university fired Terrace Calloway, the campus police chief, and named Frank Lee as a security consultant.

Lee will head the nationwide search for the school’s new security chief, the university announced.

Brown characterized Tuskegee’s security response as “routine” when the shooting unfolded in the West Commons on-campus apartments in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, as the university’s 100th Homecoming Week was winding down.

La’Tavion Johnson, 18, of Troy, was killed in the shooting.

His family said Johnson helped save another victim when he died.

A Montgomery 25-year-old, Jaquez Myrick, has been charged with being in possession of a machine gun. No one has yet been charged in the death of Johnson or the wounding of 16 other people, 12 of whom were shot.

Myrick initially denied firing a weapon, but later told federal investigators he did fire his gun but did not shoot anyone, according to federal court records.