PROVIDENCE, RI – A “person of interest” is in custody in connection to Saturday’s shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and nine others injured, police said Sunday morning.
The person of interest was apprehended at a hotel in Coventry, Rhode Island, just southwest of the Providence-based campus, multiple news outlets reported. Few other details were released as of mid-morning.
Saturday night, local law enforcement described the suspect as a male wearing all black who opened fire in Barus & Holley Building during final exams in the afternoon.
“This is a very fluid situation and dynamically evolving,” Rodney Chatman, chief of the Brown University’s Police Department, said Saturday night.
The campus had been placed on lockdown, but that ended Sunday morning when the person of interest was taken into custody.
“We have detained a person of interest,” Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said Sunday. “We are lifting the shelter-in-place.”
Tim O’Hara, deputy chief of the Providence Police Department, said Saturday the shooter left the building on foot via Hope Street.
Roughly 11,000 students attend the Ivy League university established in 1764.
President Donald Trump told Fox News from the White House that he’d been “fully briefed” on the situation. Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee confirmed he’d been in touch with the president, as well, and the FBI is assisting with the investigation.
“What a terrible thing it is,” he said. “And all we can do right now is pray for the victims.”
