Topline
Police have arrested a man, believed to be in his 20s, as a person of interest in the deadly mass shooting on the Brown University campus on Saturday that left two people dead. That ended an overnight shelter-in-place, hours after a gunman opened fire at the Rhode Island college.
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Key facts
At a press conference on Sunday morning, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley announced that a person of interest was in custody and order was lifted at the shelter.
Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said he could only provide “limited” information so far about the person in question, who he said was detained “earlier this morning.”
Previously, a deputy police chief described the person in question as a man, possibly in his 30s, and possibly wearing a mask. Reuters reported, but at a later news conference Perez said he was “actually a person in his 20s.”
Perez would not say where the person in question was being held or whether he had any ties to Brown.
Two handguns have since been recovered, as well as two loaded magazines containing 30 rounds, a law enforcement official told police. Associated presswho also said the shooter fired 40 rounds from a 9mm handgun in the classroom.
Smiley also said that seven of the nine victims were now in a stable condition, while another was in a “critical but stable” condition and another had already been discharged.
Brown canceled all classes, final exams, papers and projects for the remainder of the semester, Provost Francis J. Doyle III announced in a message on Sunday morning.
Officials did not provide an update on the ongoing investigation as of noon Sunday, but Perez said “the investigation continues to progress extremely quickly.”
In an update about social mediaFBI Director Kash Patel said the agency used geolocation tools, along with leads from Providence police, that led to the man’s arrest at a hotel in Coventry, RI
President Donald Trump later on Sunday offered his condolences to the families of the victims, in brief remarks that also mentioned the victims of the anti-Semitic mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, and the US soldiers killed in an attack on a base in Syria.
Important background
Saturday afternoon around 4 p.m., a gunman opened fire in a classroom on Brown’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island, killing two victims and wounding another nine people. Christina Paxson, president of Brown University, confirmed that the shooting took place in a classroom where a final exam assessment for a fundamentals of economics class was taking place. Immediately thereafter, a shelter-in-place order was issued for the area around campus. Few details were immediately released about the suspect, with police sharing only grainy information images from security cameras of a person of interest, dressed entirely in black clothing.
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