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Police successful Rhode Island accidental they person a idiosyncratic of involvement successful custody aft a shooting astatine Brown University killed 2 students and wounded 9 others.

The incidental happened Saturday day successful a schoolroom during last exams.

The shooting paralyzed the campus, with students sheltering successful spot for hours. Nine students with gunshot wounds were taken to the hospital, with 1 successful captious condition. An FBI cause says the apprehension took spot astatine a edifice successful Coventry, astir 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Providence.

The latest:

Authorities inactive haven't recovered a gun

Armed with a handgun, the shooter fired much than 40 9 mm rounds, according to a instrumentality enforcement official.

Authorities arsenic of Sunday greeting hadn’t recovered a weapon but did retrieve 2 loaded 30-round magazines, said the official, who spoke connected the information of anonymity due to the fact that they were not authorized to publically sermon the investigation.

— by Alanna Durkin Richer

The semester’s remaining classes, exams are canceled

Classes and exams person been canceled. University officials besides said students are escaped to leave.

Those who stay connected field volition person entree to services and support, Provost Francis Doyle said successful a statement.

“At this time, it is indispensable that we absorption our efforts connected providing attraction and enactment to the members of our assemblage arsenic we grapple with the sorrow, fearfulness and anxiousness that is impacting each of america close now,” Doyle wrote.

Senate Democrat criticizes GOP leaders implicit weapon policy

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, 1 of the starring Democratic voices connected weapon policy, said Sunday that the prospects of caller restrictions connected firearms were “slim.”

“As we cognize close now, unfortunately, the Republicans successful Congress don’t ever meaningfully interruption from this president,” Murphy said connected CNN’s “State of the Union,” arguing that Trump and the GOP were excessively aligned with the weapon lobby.

Murphy added: “That doesn’t mean I won’t try.”

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