On this picture from video, legislation enforcement officers collect outdoors the Brown College campus in Windfall, R.I., Dec. 13. AP-Yonhap
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A number of individuals had been shot Saturday within the space of Brown College, police mentioned, as the college issued an lively shooter alert and urged college students and employees to take shelter through the second day of ultimate exams.
Police didn’t instantly launch particulars in regards to the victims’ situations or the circumstances of the capturing.
College officers initially instructed college students and employees {that a} suspect was in custody, earlier than later saying that was not the case and that police had been nonetheless trying to find a suspect or suspects, in line with alerts issued by Brown’s emergency notification system.
The reported capturing occurred close to the Barus & Holley constructing, a seven-story advanced that homes the college’s College of Engineering and physics division. Based on the college’s web site, the constructing contains greater than 100 laboratories, dozens of school rooms and places of work.
College students had been urged to shelter in place as police responded to the scene, and folks had been instructed to keep away from the world. Officers cautioned that data remained preliminary as investigators labored to find out what had occurred.
Police had been actively investigating and nonetheless gathering data from the scene, mentioned Kristy DosReis, the chief public data officer for town of Windfall.
Brown is a personal, nonprofit Ivy League establishment with roughly 7,300 undergraduate college students and greater than 3,000 graduate college students. Saturday was the second day of ultimate exams for the autumn semester.
