Brown University shooting live: ‘Person of interest’ in police custody

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy advised CNN’s Dana Bash on State of the Union that the president’s rhetoric and actions since returning to the White Home made violence “extra seemingly” in America.

“He has been engaged in a fairly deliberate marketing campaign to attempt to make violence extra seemingly on this nation, and I believe you’re sadly going to see the outcomes of that on the streets of America,” Murphy stated.

A “particular person of curiosity” within the Brown College mass capturing was detained at resort in Coventry, Rhode Island, early Sunday morning, officers stated.

“The folks of Windfall ought to breathe a bit simpler this morning,” Windfall Mayor Brett Smiley stated at a Sunday press convention.

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Windfall officers introduced on Sunday night that the investigation into the mass capturing at Brown College “stays lively and ongoing.”

Extra data can be supplied as officers acquire “a clearer and extra full image of the circumstances concerned,” Windfall Chief Public Data Officer for Public Security Kristy DosReis stated in assertion launched at 7:58 p.m.

Amith Chintalapati, a junior at Brown College, advised NBC Information that he was strolling on campus yesterday when he noticed victims of the mass capturing on the road.

“I noticed some folks huddled on the bottom, and I noticed that two folks received shot and had made their strategy to the road, and other people had been making use of strain and making an attempt to maintain them from bleeding out,” he advised the outlet on Sunday.

He stated one of many victims was a classmate of his and that he rushed to help.

“I simply stored telling him he was OK and to breathe and simply look forward to the EMTs to reach,” Chintalapati stated.

Quickly after, police arrived and instructed him to take shelter. He hid out in a dorm room for about eight hours and was knowledgeable round midnight that his classmate was in secure situation within the hospital.

Federal brokers had been noticed at a house tied to Benjamin Erickson, a 24-year-old Wisconsin man, who’s an individual of curiosity within the mass capturing at Brown College, in response to the Windfall Journal.

Brokers had been seen on the dwelling, positioned in Cedarburg, round 4 p.m. on Sunday.

A Democratic senator who was a champion of gun reforms within the wake of the Sandy Hook capturing in his state blamed Donald Trump on Sunday for encouraging a “dizzying” marketing campaign of violence, hours after authorities introduced that an individual of curiosity was apprehended for a mass capturing at Brown College.

The Rhode Island Blood Heart, a non-profit blood donation group, stated it has acquired an “outpouring of assist” following the mass capturing at Brown College on Saturday.

“Thanks, Windfall,” the group stated in a press release on Sunday night. “Due to the unimaginable outpouring of assist from our group, the Windfall Donor Heart will shut immediately at 6:00 PM. Thanks to each donor and group member who stepped up immediately — your compassion and generosity imply every part.”

Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat, known as for an finish to the “epidemic” of gun violence following the mass capturing at Brown College.

“From Columbine, to Sandy Hook, to yesterday’s tragic capturing in Windfall, too a lot of our communities have been shattered by mindless gun violence,” Crow wrote on X on Sunday night. “It shouldn’t be regular. It may possibly’t be regular. We’ve to struggle day-after-day to maintain our youngsters secure and finish this epidemic.”

Benjamin Erickson, the person whom legislation enforcement sources have advised the Washington Put up, is the particular person of curiosity detained by authorities, was within the U.S. Military from 2021 till 2024, in response to information.

Erickson, 24, served as an infantryman for 3 years. His service led to November 2024.

Officers haven’t publicly recognized Erickson because the particular person of curiosity. The Windfall police chief and Mayor Smiley have stated they won’t determine the particular person of curiosity till all proof has been gathered and they’re able to pursue expenses.

Greater than 200 folks within the Windfall and Brown College group gathered in Lippitt Memorial Park this night to recollect the 2 college students who had been killed and 9 different injured in a capturing.