Person of Interest released in Brown University shooting

Update: The detained person of interest will be released from custody, according to officials. As the investigation continues, we are asking anyone with relevant information, including video or photo evidence, to submit it by phone or through the FBI tip line,” read the police department’s post on X. The public can submit tips to police by calling (401) 272-3121 or via the FBI’s tipline. Police have detained a man as a person of interest in the deadly mass shooting on Brown University’s campus on Saturday that left two dead, after a shooter opened fire at the Rhode Island school. The detained person is an adult in their thirties and authorities are not currently searching for anyone else, according to Col. Oscar Perez, chief of the Providence police, who confirmed the information at a news conference. Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said he could only provide “limited” information about the person of interest so far, who he said was detained “earlier this morning.” Reports state that the suspect was arrested at a hotel in Coventry, about 20 miles from Providence. It has been reported that two loaded 30-round magazines, however, investigators still haven’t recovered the gun used in the shooting. Seven of the nine victims were now in stable condition, while another was in “critical but stable” condition and another already discharged, according to Providence Mayor Brett Smiley. A gunman opened fire in a classroom on Brown’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island around 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon , killing two victims and injuring another nine people. The shooting took place in a large classroom inside Brown’s Barus & Holley building where a final exam review for a principles of economics class was taking place and a shelter in place order was issued for the area around the campus, confirmed Brown University President Christina Paxson. The Barus & Holley building is a seven-story structure home to much of the university’s engineering and physics study and research, officials said. More than 400 law enforcement personnel, including agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, were involved in the manhunt. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley announced that the city was lifting its shelter-in-place alert for the affected area after the person of interest was detained early Sunday morning.