Two people were killed and eight others were injured in a shooting at Brown University Saturday afternoon and the suspect remains at large, the mayor of Providence said.
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley (D) said the investigation is still ongoing and that the accounts of casualties may change. The injured victims are in critical condition, but stable, at a local hospital, Smiley said.
“Sadly, today is a day the city of Providence and the state of Rhode Island prayed would never come,” Smiley said in a news conference Saturday evening.
Students remain under lockdown, and campus and city police are responding to the incident.
The first 911 call came in at 4:05 p.m., officials said, and the shooting took place at the Barus and Holley Engineering building, which contains laboratories and classrooms. Police searched the building but did not locate the suspect, whom they described as a male dressed in black.
The building is a popular place for students to study and exams were scheduled there for Saturday afternoon. The school’s final examination period had just begun Friday.
In a post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump said he had been briefed on the shooting and the FBI was on the scene.
“Multiple shot in the area of Brown University,” Providence Police said on X. “This is an active investigation. Please shelter in place or avoid the area until further notice.”
Campus officials said an earlier report of a shooting near Governor Street was unfounded.
At the university’s science library, a block away from the area of the shooting, video provided by a student showed police officers in tactical gear and carrying weapons weaving their way through tables covered with laptops and textbooks. “Everybody okay?” one officer asked. “No injuries?”
The building remains on lockdown.
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