{"id":315246,"date":"2025-12-14T08:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315246\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:03:08","slug":"brown-university-shooting-manhunt-continues-after-two-killed-and-nine-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315246\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University shooting: Manhunt continues after two killed and nine injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

The identities of those killed or injured have not yet been released by officials. <\/p>\n

“This is a day that we hoped never would come to our community. It is deeply devastating for all of us,” said Brown University President Christina Paxson in a statement. <\/p>\n

Police have released limited information about the male suspect, including an identity or motive. It is not known if he has links to the university.<\/p>\n

CCTV footage showed the suspect walking out of the building after the attack but the his face can not be seen.<\/p>\n

Providence Deputy Police Chief Tim O’Hara said the suspect was dressed all in black and may have been wearing a mask. It is not known what type of firearm he used and it has not been recovered.<\/p>\n

“We’re utilising every resource possible to find this suspect,” he added, with extra armed police resources drafted into to search the area.<\/p>\n

The shooting happened at the Barus and Holley building, part of Brown University’s engineering school. The attack happened in a large classroom on the first floor.<\/p>\n

An economics professor told local public media outlet Ocean State Radio, external<\/a> that the shooting took place during a review session for her course, which was led by her teaching assistant.<\/p>\n

“He said that the shooter came in the doors, yelled something – he couldn’t remember what he yelled – and started shooting,” Rachel Friedberg said.<\/p>\n

“Students started to scramble to try to get away from the shooter, trying to get lower down in the stadium seating, and people got shot,” she added.<\/p>\n

Officials cleared the building on Saturday afternoon but found neither the suspect nor a weapon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The identities of those killed or injured have not yet been released by officials. “This is a day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-315246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}