Hundreds of police are searching for the attacker, who killed two people and injured nine others at Brown University in Rhode Island. Hundreds of police officers were searching this Sunday morning (12/14) for the shooter who killed two people and injured nine others at Brown University in Province, Rhode Island, United States.
The streets around the university were lined with emergency vehicles hours after the gunman opened fire Saturday in a building where exams were being held.
The incident is the latest in a long series of attacks on educational institutions in the United States, where attempts to restrict access to guns have met with political deadlock.
Witness Katie Sun told the Brown Daily Herald student newspaper that she was studying in a nearby building when she heard the gunshots. She ran back to her dorm, leaving all her belongings behind. “It was really scary. The shots seemed to be coming from where the classrooms are,” he said.
Brown University student Lydell Dyer was working in the university’s gymnasium at the time of the attack, according to CNN. “We had to gather everyone, take them to the top floor, turn off the lights and close the blinds,” he said, adding that he hid silently in the dark with 154 other people.
Campus Headquarters
The shooter was still at large ten hours after the shooting, and about 400 officers, ranging from FBI agents to campus police, surrounded the picturesque northeast New England campus.
Police released 10 seconds of footage of the suspect walking quickly down a deserted street, seen from behind after opening fire in a first-floor classroom.
Brown University President Christina Paxson confirmed in a letter to community members that all 11 victims were students.
“Nine members of our community who were transported to local hospitals are all students. And we lost two students to today’s devastating gun violence,” Paxson said in the text posted on the university’s website.
“We have learned from the hospital that six students remain in critical but stable condition. One student is in critical condition, another is considered to be in stable condition and one has been treated and released.”
More than 300 mass shootings in 2025
There have been more than 300 mass shootings in the United States this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot.
The stay-at-home order remains in effect, the Providence Emergency Management Agency said on social media.
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said city officials “do not deem it necessary” for residents to cancel vacation plans over the weekend or throughout the week.
“In the hours since the first shooting, we have received no further credible information indicating that there is an ongoing specific threat from this individual,” Smiley said.
Final exams scheduled for Sunday have been postponed, university officials said.
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