Police have detained ​a “person of interest” in connection with the Brown University shooting that left two students dead and another nine ‍people wounded at the US Ivy League school. Providence’s chief public information officer for public safety Kristy DosReis said the person of interest was in police custody after the shooting. The gunman fled after shooting students in a classroom in Brown’s Barus and ‌Holley engineering building, where ‌outer doors had been unlocked while exams were taking place, officials said. Photograph: Mark Stockwell/APDetectives were looking into why that location was targeted, police chief Oscar Perez told reporters ‌at a news conference. President Donald Trump told reporters that he had been briefed and “all we can do right now is pray for the victims”.

Source: The Irish Times December 14, 2025 14:24 UTC