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Sen. Raphael Warnock: 'We have to pray not only with our lips, but with our action'
In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., reacted to the shooting, saying he did not “think that there’s any pain deeper than when nature is violently reversed, and rather than children burying their parents, the parent has to bury the child.”
Warnock added that "we have to pray not only with our lips, but with our action."
"Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence, year after year, decade after decade, in random places on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of more repair," he said.
Brown University cancels remaining fall semester classes
All remaining undergraduate, graduate and medical classes, exams, papers and projects for the fall 2025 semester will not take place as scheduled, Brown University Provost Francis J. Doyle said in a statement today.
"This choice was made out of our profound concern for all students, faculty and staff on our campus," Doyle said. "In the immediate aftermath of these devastating events, we recognize that learning and assessment are significantly hindered in the short term and that many students and others will wish to depart campus."
Doyle said students are free to leave campus if they are able, but students who remain will have access to on-campus services and support.
"We know there will be many academic concerns about the implications of not holding classes and exams as scheduled," the statement said. "We will follow up with more information in the coming days."
'Not something that any community should have to train for,' Providence mayor says
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley says the people of the city "should breathe a little easier this morning” as he confirmed a shelter-in-place order had been lifted.
"We have trained for this moment," said a visibly emotional Smiley. "But this is not something that any community should have to train for."
There will be plenty of time to talk about what should happen, what should have happened, in our society," he added. "But right now our priorities remain the same as they were yesterday, which is to bring the individual responsible to justice."
He said the status of the survivors of the attack "had not degraded, and we should thank God for that."
Brown University President Christina Paxon echoes Smiley's remarks, saying that public and university officials prepare regularly for this kind of incident, but that “when it happens, it’s just hard to believe.”
She said the shooting occurred inside a final exam review for a principles of economics class.
Person of interest detained, mayor confirms
A person of interest has been detained in connection with the Brown University shooting, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said in a news conference this morning.
Col. Oscar Perez, the chief of police in Providence, said the person was taken into custody early Sunday morning and that officials were not currently looking for anyone else.
He said the person detained was in their 30s.
Smiley added that seven individuals who were injured at Brown remain in stable condition, while one of them is in critical but stable condition and another has been discharged.
Suspect is in custody after shooting, officials say
Two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter say a suspect is in custody in connection with the shooting.
The man had a unique characteristic on his firearm, the officials said, and that firearm was found when he was taken into custody.
The person has not been identified and has not yet been charged.
Shelter-in-place order lifted but police activity continues, Brown says
The shelter-in-place order issued by police earlier "has ended for the entire Brown campus," Brown University said in a message on its website.
"Police activity continues in areas that are still considered an active crime scene," the message added. "Be advised that access to these areas of campus continues to be limited."
Within the police perimeter, "community members who leave those buildings will be unable to return," Brown said.
Police later said that the order has also been lifted throughout the city of Providence.
What we know about the Brown University shooting
A gunman killed two people and injured nine others after opening fire at Brown University’s engineering and physics building in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday, officials said.
The unidentified gunman left after the shooting at the Barus & Holley building, on the eastern edge of the campus, Cmdr. Timothy O’Hara, deputy chief of Providence police, said Saturday night.
People in the area were advised to shelter in place amid an active manhunt.
'An unimaginably tragic day,' says Brown University president
This is "a day that no university community is ever prepared for," Brown University President Christina H. Paxson said in a statement after two students were killed and nine other people injured in a shooting at the university.
"While we prepare for major crises, we always pray this day never comes. This is a time for our campus to care for each other and support each other," she added.
Paxson said Brown remains under a shelter-in-place order and that Sunday exams had been canceled.
"It is an active police scene, and the priority is to keep everyone safe," said the statement. "This is an unimaginably tragic day."
Shelter-in-place alert remains in effect
A Brown University alert to shelter in place remains ongoing, the university posted on X early Sunday morning.
"Law enforcement officers continue to evacuate community members from administrative buildings inside the perimeter depicted on the map," it said, directing students toward a map published at http://www.brown.edu.
"For all locations (inside and outside the perimeter), the shelter in place remains ongoing," it added.
Brown University President Christina Paxson said students who are in residence halls "should remain there."
"Sheltering in place at this stage means staying in doors," a statement added. "Students in off-campus residences are advised to remain there until the lockdown is lifted."
The statement continued: "All members of the campus community will receive an alert notifying students, faculty and staff when the shelter in place order is lifted."
Grad student recalls hiding in bathroom for over four hours
Graduate student Jack DiPrimio said he was doing busywork in the lobby of an academic building about two to three blocks from the building where the shooting occurred.
At first, he didn’t think too much of the text alerts saying there was an active shooting. “I had been through so many lockdowns in school and in undergrad that I wasn’t that worried,” DiPrimio said.
He went outside and saw people running from Barus & Holley, where the shooting occurred, and then he started getting texts about possible numbers of people injured. He quickly realized this may not be a false alarm.
DiPrimio said he ran into his apartment building nearby but didn’t have his keys. He recalled running out to the street again and into a nearby dorm, where a student in the building held the door open for him to run inside.
Once inside, DiPrimio said he hid alone in a bathroom in the basement for four to five hours. He turned off the lights and tried to make as little noise as possible. He passed the time by scrolling on social media, trying to glimpse what information he could about the situation outside. About three hours in, his phone died, so he went to the Department of Public Safety across the street to charge it. After that, DiPrimio said, they let him go back into his apartment.
As of 1 a.m., DiPrimio said, students and others were still in lockdown across campus, waiting for law enforcement to clear their building. He said he keeps calling friends because he doesn’t want to be alone with his thoughts.
“A lot of us had just finished finals and there’s this crushing wave of grief and sadness,” he said. “It’s such a horrible way to end the semester.”
