A “person of interest” in the Brown University mass shooting is in custody following an 11-hour manhunt, police said Sunday.
Authorities would not comment on whether the gunman was connected to the elite school in Providence, Rhode Island.
Two students were killed and nine others wounded in the attack on a final exam study session.
A shelter in place order was lifted on the Ivy League school campus.
One of the injured victims remains in critical condition, seven are in a stable condition and one has been discharged from the hospital, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley told reporters.
The person of interest was taken into custody following heavy police activity at a Coventry, RI, hotel at around 3:45 a.m. that law enforcement officials said was “connected” to Saturday’s deadly shooting.
Investigators are not currently searching for anyone else in connection with the shooting, Providence Police Dept. Chief Col. Oscar Perez told the press conference.
Few details have been given on the person taken into custody and it isn’t clear if he was affiliated with the university.
Here’s the latest on the mass shooting at Brown University
A heavy police presence remains in place as of Sunday morning, with access to the university’s Minden Hall and nearby apartment buildings still limited.”The people of Providence should breathe a little easier this morning,” Mayor Smiley said.
The shooting happened around 4:30 p.m. during a final exam review session at the private university.
Economics professor Rachel Friedberg said her teaching assistant was leading the session in her place when the shooter burst in.
“The room has stadium seating with doors that enter at the top,” Friedberg told Ocean State Media.
“He [her teaching assistant] said that the shooter came in the doors, yelled something — he couldn’t remember what he yelled — and started shooting. Students started to scramble to try to get away from the shooter, trying to get lower down in the stadium seating, and people got shot,” she said.
None of the casualties have been identified and it isn’t clear how many were students.
Footage of the alleged shooter was released Saturday evening showing the suspect exiting an academic building onto Hope Street.
He was described as “a male, dressed in black,” and possibly in his 30s by Tim O’Hara, Providence Police deputy chief, on Saturday night.
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