https://www.reuters.com/world/us/multiple-people-shot-brown-university-official-says-2025-12-13/Dec 13 (Reuters) - More than 400 law enforcement personnel were deployed on Saturday as police sought the suspect in a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island that left two students dead and another nine people wounded at the Ivy League school, officials said.The Providence university remained in lockdown hours after a suspect with a firearm entered a building where students were taking exams. Officials do not believe there is any "specific, ongoing threat" from the suspect, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said late Saturday, but with law enforcement agencies canvassing the area and conducting a manhunt, a shelter-in-place order for the campus and the surrounding neighborhood will remain for now.The shelter-in-place allows (law enforcement) to do their work in the first phase of the investigation," Smiley said.Streets around the campus were packed with emergency vehicles and security was heightened around the city as law enforcement agencies sought the gunman, who has not yet been identified, officials said. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are working with local and state police on the investigation.Officials released a video of the suspect, a male possibly in his 30s and dressed in black. Providence Deputy Police Chief Timothy O’Hara said the individual may have worn a mask, but officials are not certain.Investigators retrieved shell casings from the scene of the shooting, but police are not prepared to release details yet, O'Hara said.The gunman escaped after shooting students in a classroom in Brown's Barus & Holley engineering building, where outer doors had been unlocked while exams were taking place, officials said. Detectives are looking into why that location was targeted, police Chief Oscar Perez told reporters at a news conference.
All or nearly all of the victims were students, Brown President Christina Paxson told reporters."This is the day one hopes never happens, and it has," Paxson said.Seven of the nine wounded were listed as critical late Saturday, according to Brown University Health.Brown, located on College Hill in Rhode Island's state capital, has hundreds of buildings, including lecture halls, laboratories and dormitories. The shooting suspect is thought to have fled, according to local officials, along a normally bustling street of restaurants and coffee shops.As news of the shooting spread, the school told students to shelter in place.Brown student Chiang-Heng Chien told local TV station WJAR he was working in a lab with three other students when he saw the text about the active shooter situation a block away. They waited under desks for about two hours, he said.Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee vowed that the shooter would be brought to justice. "We're going to make sure that we catch the individual that brought so much suffering to so many people."The search for the suspect was complicated by throngs of holiday shoppers and thousands of people attending concerts and events on a weekend night, local officials told reporters. Federal law enforcement and police from surrounding cities and towns were assisting in the search, officials said. According to local news reports, venues across the city were bringing in extra security.Police were scouring videos and calling for information from witnesses or others in their search for the suspect."Some tips have been coming in. We have been running them down," O’Hara said. "None of them have worked out for us yet."
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that he had been briefed on the situation, which he called "terrible.""All we can do right now is pray for the victims and for those that were very badly hurt."Compared to many countries, mass shootings in schools, workplaces, and places of worship are more common in the U.S., which has some of the most permissive gun laws in the developed world. The Gun Violence Archive, which defines mass shootings as any incident in which four or more victims have been shot, has counted 389 of them this year in the U.S., including at least six such shootings at schools.Last year the U.S. had more than 500 mass shootings, according to the archive."I’m numb, and I’m more so angry," Brown sophomore Zoe Weissman told Reuters.Weissman has testified before state lawmakers in support of an assault weapons ban about her experience as a middle schooler in Parkland, Florida, where a shooter in 2018 killed 17 students and teachers, and injured others."I’m shocked but I’m not surprised."
>>1465252>Officials released a video of the suspect...I followed the link.I looked for the video.There was no video.Therefore the shooter was black or trans.Prove me wrong.
https://apnews.com/article/brown-university-shooting-suspect-search-1da03b12b2eac2b530172667d3df30c4
>>1465257>No name>No descriptionShooter confirmed to be DeSquarius Jackson-Washington.
>>1465256>>1465258Every video of the guy shows he's completely covered up. Hell even assuming it's a guy is arguably a stretch.
>>1465270>even assuming it's a guy is arguably a stretch.Well, yeah, it could be a tranny.
>>1465271It's George Washington's great great great great grandson
>>1465256they got the wrong guy at first
>>1465308Apparently they have a suspect in custody but considering the Patel FBI's track record, I'd take it with a grain of salt in regards to if it's actually the guy
>>1465256Keep up the good work, culture warrior!
>>1465252>2 dead>9 injured 9+2=11Fake. Governments (run by jews) sure love fake shootings so they can disarm everyone.
>>1465357>11 = ...Jews!I know this is the usual antisemitic random bullshit, but I'm so fucking curious as to what the connection is.
>>1465473I think he's saying it's 9/11x1000
CNN: person of interest is a man from Wisconsin and is in his 20shttps://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/brown-university-shooting-12-13-25
>>1465480But is he confirmed the shooter though? After all the bullshit with the fake leads during Kirk's shooting, I don't trust what is presumably the FBI doing this manhunt.
>>1465487Given the FBI is corrupt and incompetent, the media is in the republican's pocket and you'll have people spamming false information here specifically to push racist or bigoted agendas. It's be hard for anything to be creditable.
>>1465252Another moid having a moment.
You never expect it to be your community hit. The amount of times I've been on here looking at these things and feeling disconnected because it was so far away is staggering. Having something like this happen 10 minutes down the road at your friend's college is unreal. Why the fuck did some dude from Minnesota do this? Providence cops are great, I know a lot of them. Small state. It has to be the FBI that's withholding information at this point.
>>1465541>You never expect it to be your community hit.I live in an increasingly multi-cultural city. I'm usually shocked when it doesn't happen here.
>>1465543I mean yeah, its all just latinos now. The italian roots are gone. Shooter was white. Providence and the north east itself is very safe, I think this is the first school shooting ever in RI but I could be wrong.
>>1465258Looks like /pol/ and their far right propaganda network is WRONG AGAINhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/12/14/brown-university-shooting-live-updates/87761688007/>the person of interest Benjamin Erickson.
>>1465552>WrongIt's actually a tool to get details about these things when they happen. It's useful because leftist freak the fuck out and start doing the groundwork I don't want to bother with for me.https://channel2now.com/2025/12/14/article/news/crime/brown-university-shooting-suspect-identified-as-24-year-old-benjamin-erickson-from-west-bend-wisconsin/>Benjamin Erickson served in the 201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201st_Expeditionary_Military_Intelligence_Brigade>The 201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade provides deployable all-source intelligence analysis, human intelligence (humint), electronic warfare intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance, target acquisition, battle damage assessment, command and control warfareI have a feeling he found a major leftist Internet troll and did the needful.
>>1465556>It's the Russian shill againNo one believes your lies.
>>1465561Huh? It worked. Didn't it? You gave me a name I could Google didn't you? It's OK if you were outsmarted. I appreciate your efforts the all the same.
apparently the class he shot up was a jewish studies class
>>1465575Oh so a left winger upset he didn't get his Free Palestine? At least he didn't set himself on fire.
>>1465575Must be another rightoid like the fringe rightoid who killed corporeal kirk giving how desperate the MIGA shills like >>1465567 >>1465587are trying to scapegoat liberals, again.And this was after they tried to go with the racist trope of saying the shooter was black too.
>>1465599So, it's this routine again? Not interesting.
>>1465605Rightoids should really stop murdering people if you don't find it interesting. But conservationism is inherently violent.
>trump's FBI still haven't posted his pictureHe is 100% white.
>>1465252>>1465608>>1465599"Brown University shooter ID'd as Benjamin Warner Erickson — a radical leftist with social media full of gender equality activism, pro-migrant posts, and voter records tying him to the ultra-progressive DC Statehood Democrat Party."Yet another deranged left-wing extremist unleashes hell on innocents. At this point the pattern is undeniable.
>>1465707>Unironically using the term 'leftist'>Which confirms he's a rightoidThanks Russian shill, keep on batting .000 in disinformation camapigns for all the mass killings your side is responsible for.
>>1465707They released him; he wasn't the guy. As predicted, Patel's FBI fucked up and wasted their time on the wrong suspect.
>>1465707lmao they just released the guy after determining he wasn't the shooter. Hope either the FBI or the local PD is ready to settle the lawsuit from all the guy's details being leaked.
>>1465707Breaking news/pol/ IS WRONG AGAIN
Oh it gets fucking better. Apparently the FBI just fucking jumped on one tip the local PD got and ran with it, likely wherever >>1465707 got it from... and whoops, turned out he was the wrong fucking guy and the tip was bunk.
>>1465740Hopefully the guy sues all the right wing outlets that declared he was the killer.
>>1465715>>1465718>>1465740>>1465749Whoever that wrongfully arrested guy was, get yourself a good lawyer. Sue Patel till he financially Krash-es. And of course,. the buck stops at the White House. Take it all the way to the top of that whole MAGA shitpile.
>>1465752>Sue Patel till he financially Krash-esThe problem is trump will have the FBI, aka taxpayer money foot the bill. Also he was only considered a person of interest, so they never declared he was the killer.
that's why I love when Palestinian children blow up, dirty muslims deserve to be deleted
>>1465489>Rhode Island>leftist strongholdOh i am so sorry it happened to people who couldn't of deserved it more.why couldn't it of been someone like you in there instead.fully expecting it to be leftists doing it to each other>>1465552https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/brown-university-shooting-live-updates-rcna249097>Evidence 'now points in a different direction,' AG says>"I think it's fair to say that there is no basis to consider him a person of interest, so that's why he's being released," Neronha told reporters.leftist dipshit BTFO again you got the wrong guy retard again
>>1465749but leftists like you were the ones crying and claiming he was a righty, he's gonna have to go after you next>>1465752nah he'll be suing rhode island's local PD retard they were the ones who put in the bad tip. looks like another corrupt leftists establishment BTFO again,
>>1465779>>1465783>still pushing the leftist forced memeIt is 7pm in Moscow after all.
>>1465258Did we ever get an ID for that Stockton, CA shooting?
>>1465258How does /pol/ get it so wrong every time?
>>1465822Haven't checked, but I'm fairly certain the shooter was a tranny.
>>1465945So they aren't.
>>1465945>Stockton, CA shootingtranny confirmed.
>>1465945>>1465991tranny derangement syndrome
>>1465992I wasn't attempting to discuss the psychological aspect of it.
>>1465707At this point the pattern is undeniable: as that post of yours aged well, right-wing extremists are deranged liars and everything they say goes into the trash.
>Manhunt for Brown University shooter renewed after police release detained manhttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/manhunt-brown-university-shooter-renewed-after-police-release-detained-man-2025-12-15/>FBI offers $50k reward in hunt for suspect in deadly Brown University shootinghttps://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yj6kkdpm8t?post=asset%3A411a531f-556b-41e5-8c6d-ab5a8700ac91#post
>>1466011trump's FBI is so incompetent. I mean let's be honest, if they didn't find a fall guy for kirk's killer, he's still be at large.
>>1465254>The Gun Violence Archive, which defines mass shootings as any incident in which four or more victims have been shot, has counted 389 of them this year in the U.S., including at least six such shootings at schools. Last year the U.S. had more than 500 mass shootings, according to the archive.And as has been repeatedly shown, most of the shooters have been Blacks shooting other Blacks for some stupid nonsensical reason.
>>1465270>Every video of the guyLink?
>>1466064The AP article has a new video.https://apnews.com/article/brown-university-shooting-suspect-ea65594e4a11fd487ae615b833019293
>>1466017>blaming the FBIit happened on a woke university campus in a deep blue city in a deep blue state. That's the law enforcement who was responsible for the initial response and they fucked up. The only reason the FBI has anything to do with this is because Democrats fucked up.
>it's not only >>1466608 who is incompetent>rightard blaming everybody else but the FBI led by a retard appointed by an incompetent orange retardClassic.
The little bitch offed himself in a storage unit in who give a fuck new hapshire
