(NewsNation) — A person of interest is in custody in connection with Saturday’s shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and nine injured, officials confirmed Sunday morning.
The male suspect remained at large until around 3:45 a.m. on Sunday, following an active-shooter incident at Brown University in Providence, R.I. The apprehension occurred at Hampton Inn and Suites on Centre of New England Boulevard in Coventry, R.I., about 17 miles southwest of the school.
Detectives said they are not searching for another suspect at this point. During a news briefing Sunday, police confirmed that the person of interest is in his 20s.
Officials said the shooting occurred around 4 p.m. when a gunman entered an engineering building known as Barus and Holley, where final exams were being held, and opened fire in a first-floor classroom before slipping out an exit. Brown University and Providence police swarmed the area for hours while a shelter-in-place order remained in effect.
The shelter-in-place has been lifted, but a police presence will remain heightened on campus.
“The state of Rhode Island is in shock, but they’re really responding,” said Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee at a press conference. “We’re proud of the fact that we live in a state where everyone comes together.”
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said the department recently trained for shootings like this, though noting, “This is not something any community should have to train for.”
During remarks at a White House event on Sunday, President Donald Trump paid his respects to the people killed and injured at the school.
“To the nine injured, get well fast, and to the family of those that are no longer with us, I pay my deepest regards and respects from the United States of America,” Trump said.
Overnight manhunt
“We’ve got over 400 officers on the ground right now. Every minute matters,” Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said of the ongoing manhunt late Saturday.
Brown University President Christina Paxson said the shooting victims, including the two people who died, were students. Of the survivors, seven patients were in critical condition, and one was in stable at Rhode Island Hospital. Authorities later discovered a ninth person was hit by shooting “fragments” but had non-life-threatening injuries, Smiley said.
Police released surveillance video of the suspect, whom they described as a male, possibly in his 30s, wearing all black as he left the engineering building. Police said they had not recovered a weapon and were trying to determine how the shooter gained access to the building.
‘It’s a shame,’ Trump says of shooting at Brown University
President Trump said he’d been briefed on the event.
“What a terrible thing it is. And all we can do right now is pray for the victims, and for those that were very badly hurt, it looks like, and will inform you later as to what’s happening. But it’s a shame. It’s a shame,” he said.
The shooting at Brown University comes just four days after one student was killed and another was critically wounded in a shooting at Kentucky State University.
Brown University is an Ivy League school with about 11,000 students, including 7,300 undergraduates, according to the institution’s website.