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.”

Tuskegee University fired its security chief after a shooting killed one person and injured 16 others on Sunday.