Person of interest held in hunt for gunman who killed 2 at Brown University

Police are not looking for anyone other implicit the shooting that wounded 9 radical astatine the Ivy League schoolhouse successful the northeastern US.

Police successful Providence, Rhode Island, person detained a “person of interest” aft a manhunt for a gunman who killed 2 radical astatine Brown University, officials say.

At a quality league connected Sunday, Police Colonel Oscar Perez said the idiosyncratic had been detained that greeting and officers were not presently looking for anyone other successful narration to the shooting astatine the Ivy League assemblage successful the northeastern United States.

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Officials person not released the individuality of the idiosyncratic of interest.

Nine radical were wounded connected Saturday, 7 of them critically, erstwhile a fishy with a firearm entered a gathering wherever students were taking exams and opened fire.

The shooting sparked a manhunt involving much than 400 instrumentality enforcement personnel, including agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, portion the field was placed nether lockdown arsenic the hunt took place.

Students hid nether desks for hours aft warnings of an progressive shooter were released.

Brown said successful an advisory connected Sunday that constabulary had lifted a shelter-in-place bid for the field though constabulary remained astatine the determination and inactive considered it an progressive transgression scene.

Access to parts of the field remained restricted connected Sunday arsenic constabulary maintained a information perimeter astir Minden Hall and adjacent flat buildings, the assemblage said.

Officials had earlier released a video of the suspect, a male, perchance successful his 30s, who was dressed successful black.

Providence Deputy Police Chief Timothy O’Hara said connected Saturday that the gunman whitethorn person worn a disguise and investigators had retrieved ammunition casings from the scene.

Police are deployed successful Providence connected December 13, 2025, during the hunt for the shooter [Mark Stockwell/AP]

Detectives were looking into wherefore the determination was targeted, Perez told reporters. The incidental was the 2nd deadly weapon onslaught astatine a US assemblage successful caller days aft a shooting astatine Kentucky State University connected Tuesday.

The Gun Violence Archive, which defines wide shootings arsenic immoderate incidental successful which 4 oregon much radical are shot, has documented 389 specified incidents successful the US truthful acold this year, including astatine slightest six astatine schools.

Last year, much than 500 wide shootings were recorded successful the US.