Fear grips Brown University after shooter kills 2 and wounds 9 as police search for shooter

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Hundreds of constabulary officers were scouring the Brown University field on with adjacent neighborhoods and poring implicit video successful the hunt for a shooter who opened occurrence successful a classroom, sidesplitting 2 radical and wounding 9 others.

The hunt stretched precocious into the night, good aft the shooting erupted Saturday day successful the engineering gathering of the Ivy League schoolhouse successful Providence, Rhode Island, during last exams.

Surveillance video released by constabulary shows the suspect, dressed successful black, calmly walking distant from the scene. His look is not disposable and investigators said it wasn't wide whether the fishy is simply a student.

The fishy was past seen leaving the engineering gathering and immoderate witnesses told constabulary the suspect, who could beryllium successful his 30s, whitethorn person been wearing a camouflage mask, Providence Police Deputy Chief Timothy O’Hara said.

University President Christina Paxson said she was told 10 radical who were changeable were students. Another idiosyncratic was injured by fragments from the shooting but it was not wide if the unfortunate was a student, she said.

The hunt for the shooter paralyzed the campus, the adjacent neighborhoods filled with stately ceramic homes and the downtown successful Rhode Island's superior city. Streets usually bustling with enactment connected weekends were eerily quiet.

Students sheltered successful spot for hours into the night. Officers successful tactical cogwheel led students retired of immoderate field buildings and into a fittingness halfway wherever they waited. Others arrived astatine the structure connected buses without jackets oregon immoderate belongings.

Mayor advised radical to enactment home

Investigators were not instantly definite however the shooter got wrong the first-floor classroom. Outer doors of the gathering were unlocked but rooms being utilized for last exams required badge access, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said.

He encouraged radical surviving adjacent the field to enactment wrong oregon not instrumentality location until a shelter-in-place bid was lifted.

“The Brown community’s bosom is breaking and Providence’s bosom is breaking on with it,” Smiley said.

Authorities judge the shooter utilized a handgun, according to a instrumentality enforcement authoritative who was not authorized to sermon an ongoing probe and spoke connected information of anonymity.

Democratic Gov. Dan McKee vowed that each resources were being deployed to drawback the suspect. Rhode Island has immoderate of the strictest weapon laws successful the U.S.

Nine radical with gunshot wounds were taken to Rhode Island Hospital, wherever 1 was successful captious condition. Six required intensive attraction but were not getting worse and 2 were stable, infirmary spokesperson Kelly Brennan said.

Exams were underway during shooting

Engineering plan exams were underway erstwhile the shooting occurred successful the Barus & Holley building, a seven-story analyzable that houses the School of Engineering and physics department. The gathering includes much than 100 laboratories, dozens of classrooms and offices, according to the university’s website.

Emma Ferraro, a chemic engineering student, was successful the building’s lobby moving connected a last task erstwhile she heard large pops coming from the eastbound side. Once she realized they were gunshots, she darted for the doorway and ran to a adjacent gathering wherever she sheltered for respective hours.

Former ‘Survivor’ contestant conscionable near the building

Eva Erickson, a doctoral campaigner who was the runner-up earlier this twelvemonth connected the CBS world contention amusement “Survivor,” said she near her laboratory successful the engineering gathering 15 minutes earlier shots rang out.

The engineering and thermal subject pupil shared candid moments connected “Survivor” arsenic the show’s archetypal openly autistic contestant. She was locked down successful the field gym pursuing the shooting and shared connected societal media that the lone different subordinate of her laboratory who was contiguous was safely evacuated.

Brown elder biochemistry pupil Alex Bruce was moving connected a last probe task successful his dorm straight crossed the thoroughfare from the gathering erstwhile helium heard sirens outside.

“I’m conscionable successful present shaking,” helium said, watching done the model arsenic equipped officers surrounded his dorm.

Students hid nether desks

Students successful a adjacent laboratory turned disconnected the lights and hid nether desks aft receiving an alert astir the shooting, said Chiangheng Chien, a doctoral pupil successful engineering who was astir a artifact distant from the scene.

Mari Camara, 20, a inferior from New York City, was coming retired of the room and rushed wrong a taqueria to question shelter. She spent much than 3 hours there, texting friends portion constabulary searched the campus.

“Everyone is the aforesaid arsenic me, shocked and terrified that thing similar this happened,” she said.

Brown, the seventh oldest higher acquisition instauration successful the U.S., is 1 of the nation’s astir prestigious colleges with astir 7,300 undergraduates and much than 3,000 postgraduate students. Tuition, lodging and different fees tally to astir $100,000 per year, according to the university.

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Associated Press journalists Alanna Durkin Richer, Mike Balsamo and Seung Min Kim successful Washington, Hannah Schoenbaum successful Salt Lake City, Jack Dura successful Bismarck, North Dakota, Martha Bellisle successful Seattle and John Seewer successful Toledo, Ohio, contributed.

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