Shooting in engineering building\u00a0<\/p>\n
The incident was reported in the Barus & Holley building, a seven-storey structure that houses the School of Engineering and Physics Department, according to the school’s website.<\/p>\n
It includes 117 laboratories, 150 offices, 15 classrooms and 29 labs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Engineering design exams were underway there when the shooting occurred.<\/p>\n
A police officer warned members of the media to take cover in vehicles because the area was still an active scene.<\/p>\n
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Armed police are patrolling the Brown University campus. (AP: Steven Senne)<\/p>\n
Officers carrying assault weapons and emergency vehicles lined many of the streets surrounding the engineering school.<\/p>\n
Brown senior biochemistry student Alex Bruce was working on a final research project in his dorm directly across the street from the building when he heard sirens outside and received a text about an active shooter shortly after 4 pm.<\/p>\n
“I’m just in here shaking,” he said.<\/p>\n
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He said he feared for a friend who he thought was inside the engineering building at the time.<\/p>\n
Students in a nearby lab hid under desks and turned off the lights after receiving an alert about the shooting, said Chiangheng Chien, a doctoral student in engineering who was about a block away from the scene.<\/p>\n
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Ambulances line Hope Street at Brown University in Providence. (AP: Mark Stockwell)<\/p>\n
Chief public information officer for the city of Providence, Kristy DosReis, said officials were still gathering information from the active scene.<\/p>\n
Trump says FBI on the scene<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump said he had been briefed on the incident and that the FBI was on the scene.<\/p>\n
“God bless the victims and the families of the victims!” he posted on Truth Social.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Mayor Brett Smiley said “we have all available resources” mobilised to find the suspect. (AP: Steven Senne)<\/p>\n
Providence Council member John Goncalves, whose ward includes the Brown campus, said: “My heart goes out to all the family members and the folks who’ve been impacted.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
“As a Brown alum, someone who loves the Brown community and represents this area, I’m heartbroken.”<\/p>\n
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