One has been arrested over the fatal shooting at Brown University in the US

This was announced by the police in the US state of Rhode Island arrest of a person in relation to andThe Brown University campus shooting Two people were killed and nine others were injured.

Police spokeswoman Kristy dosReis confirmed the information. A press conference has been called for 7 a.m. (local time) for further details.

Hundreds of police officers had combed the campus and surrounding neighborhoods, watching videos looking for a gunman who opened fire in a classroom, killing two people and wounding nine others.

The search continued well into the night, long after the Saturday afternoon shooting in the engineering building of the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, during final exams.

He Surveillance video The image released by police shows the suspect dressed in black calmly walking away from the crime scene. His face cannot be seen and investigators said it was unclear whether the suspect was a student.

The suspect was last seen leaving the engineering building and witnesses told police the suspect may be nearby 30 years old, could have used a camouflage masksaid Providence Deputy Police Chief Timothy O’Hara.

University President Christina Paxson said she was informed that the 10 people shot were students. Another person was injured by shrapnel from the shooting, but it was unclear whether it was a student, he said.

The search for the shooter paralyzed the campus, the surrounding neighborhoods full of elegant brick houses and the city center of Rhode Island’s capital. There was an eerie silence on the streets, which are usually busy on weekends.

The students remained hidden for hours into the night. Officers in tactical gear removed students from some campus buildings and took them to a sports center to wait. Others arrived at the shelter on buses without coats or belongings.

The mayor advised people to stay at home. Investigators were not immediately sure how the shooter entered the first-floor classroom. The building’s exterior doors were unlocked, but rooms used for final exams required card access, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said.

He encouraged people who live near campus to stay home or not return home until the shelter-in-place order is lifted.

“The heart of the Brown community is broken and the heart of Providence is broken with him,” Smiley said.

Authorities believe the shooter used a weapon, according to an official who was not authorized to discuss ongoing investigations and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Democratic Governor Dan McKee promised that all means would be used to catch the suspect. Rhode Island has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States.

Nine people with gunshot wounds were taken to Rhode Island Hospital, where one was in critical condition. Six of them required treatment in the intensive care unit, but their condition did not worsen and two remained stable, hospital spokeswoman Kelly Brennan said.

Engineering design exams were taking place when the shooting occurred in the Barus & Holley Building, a seven-story complex that houses the College of Engineering and the Department of Physics. According to the university’s website, the building contains more than 100 laboratories, dozens of classrooms and offices.

Emma Ferraro, a chemical engineering student, was working on a final project in the lobby of the building when she heard loud bangs coming from the east side. When he realized there were gunshots, he ran to the door and went to a nearby building, where he sought shelter for several hours.

The former “Survivor” contestant had just left the building. Eva Erickson, a graduate student who placed second on the CBS game show “Survivor” earlier this year, said she left her lab in the engineering building 15 minutes before the shooting.

The engineering and thermal sciences student shared candid moments on “Survivor” as the show’s first openly autistic contestant. She was locked in the campus gym after the shooting and posted on social media that the only other member of her lab present was safely evacuated.

Alex Bruce, a senior studying biochemistry at Brown University, was working on a capstone research project in his dorm directly across from the building when he heard sirens outside.

“I’m shaking here,” he said, looking out the window as armed officers surrounded his home.

Students hid under desks Students in a nearby lab turned off the lights and hid under desks after receiving an alert about the shooting, said Chiangheng Chien, an engineering graduate student who was a block from the scene.

Mari Camara, 20, a teenager from New York City, was leaving the library and heading to a taco shop for shelter. He spent more than three hours there texting friends while police searched the campus.

“Everyone is just like me, shocked and scared that something like this happened,” he said.

Brown is the seventh oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the most prestigious universities in the country, with approximately 7,300 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate students. Tuition, housing and other fees total nearly $100,000 per year, according to the university.