{"id":346428,"date":"2025-12-14T00:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346428\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T00:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:43:12","slug":"brown-university-shooting-in-us-leaves-two-dead-and-eight-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346428\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University shooting in US leaves two dead and eight injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A shooting in the engineering building at Brown University has left at least two people dead and eight injured, according to Providence&#8217;s mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Providence Police posted on X: &#8220;Multiple shot in the area of Brown University&#8221;, after responding to a live shooting shortly after 4pm on Saturday local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The suspect was a male dressed in black and last seen leaving the building, said Timothy O&#8217;Hara, deputy chief of police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He has still not been found and officers were hunting through buildings on the Ivy League campus more than two hours after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mayor Brett Smiley said a shelter-in-place was in effect for the area and encouraged people living near the campus to stay inside and not to return home until it was lifted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;We have all available resources&#8221; to find the suspect, Mr Smiley said.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police did not immediately release details about the victims\u2019 conditions or the circumstances of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officials in the state of Rhode Island on the east coast initially said a suspect was in custody, before saying that was not in fact the case and police were still searching for a suspect or suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\"><a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-12-14\/brown-university-active-shooting-live-blog\/106140862\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106140862\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow live: The latest updates from the Brown University shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The incident was reported near the Barus &amp; Holley building, a seven-storey structure that houses the School of Engineering and Physics Department, according to the school&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It includes 117 laboratories, 150 offices, 15 classrooms and 29 labs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A police officer warned members of the media to take cover in vehicles because the area was still an active scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers carrying assault weapons and emergency vehicles lined many of the streets surrounding the engineering school.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An armed policeman patrols the streets in Providence.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/91b0ef6d53d6d9e610a6397c1e8dbf13\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Armed police are patrolling the Brown University campus. (AP: Steven Senne)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Chief public information officer for the city of Providence, Kristy DosReis, said officials were still gathering information from the active scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Ivy League school is a private, nonprofit institution with about 7,300 undergraduates and just over 3,000 graduate students, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Saturday was the second day of final exams for the fall semester.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emergency services line a street in Providence.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/400117d64cb38111f9d0547f7287e8d1\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Ambulances line Hope Street at Brown University in Providence. (AP: Mark Stockwell)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">US President Donald Trump said he had been briefed on the incident and that the FBI was on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;God bless the victims and the families of the victims!&#8221; he posted on Truth Social.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Providence Council member John Goncalves, whose ward includes the Brown campus, said: &#8220;My heart goes out to all the family members and the folks who&#8217;ve been impacted.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;As a Brown alum, someone who loves the Brown community and represents this area, I&#8217;m heartbroken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shooting in the engineering building at Brown University has left at least two people dead and eight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27606,141884,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-346428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-active-shooter","9":"tag-brown-university","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}