Police are nonetheless trying to find a suspect as an lively shooter scenario develops on Brown University’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island, in keeping with an emergency alert from the college.
A earlier alert from the college mentioned police had a suspect in custody.
Students have been instructed to proceed sheltering in place till additional discover, locking doorways and silencing telephones. It’s unclear how many individuals have been injured.
There have been over 70 faculty shootings in the United States up to now this yr, according to NCS’s analysis of occasions reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety.
Brown is coordinating with a number of legislation enforcement businesses and emergency medical companies on scene close to an engineering constructing positioned on the east facet of campus, the alert mentioned.
Footage of the classroom home windows on one campus constructing appeared to point out college students hunkering down collectively, some making cellphone calls whereas watching the rising emergency response presence of EMS, hearth division and police autos outdoors, in keeping with NCS affiliate WJAR.