Person of Interest Detained After Deadly Shooting at Brown

A person of interest was in custody early Sunday in connection with a shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine more the previous day, Mayor Brett Smiley of Providence, Rhode Island, said.

The person was an individual in their 30s, according to Col. Oscar Perez, chief of the Providence Police Department. Officials did not give further details on the person who had been detained or the investigation.

The shooting occurred Saturday afternoon inside a final exam review for a Principles of Economics class on campus, Christina Paxson, the Brown University president, said Sunday. “It’s devastating,” she said.

A shelter-in-place order was lifted across the campus early Sunday, the university said.

Joseph Oduro, 21, a teaching assistant, said he had been wrapping up an economics revision session when a man with a face mask and rifle burst into the classroom, he said. The man shouted something Oduro could not make out and started shooting, he said, describing how he hid behind a desk with some students.

Here are the details:

— The students: Of the nine students who were injured and taken to a hospital, seven were in stable condition, one was in critical but stable condition, and another had been released, Smiley said Sunday.

— Where it happened: The classroom was on the first floor of the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building. Authorities said the gunman exited the building on the Hope Street side.

— School shootings: At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there Saturday had survived school shootings before. The shooting had damaged a sense of security they had cultivated for years based on the notion that they were unlikely to witness two school shootings in one lifetime.