UPDATE:
Officials in Providence say they released a person of interest detained following a Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine. The person of interest was a 24-year-old veteran from Wisconsin. The Providence police chief, said Sunday afternoon that no one had been charged yet and the evidence now points in a different direction. He also said no one else was being sought. The Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee said he regretted that the Wisconsin man faced so much attention and that the investigation would proceed more carefully. The University President said one student of the nine wounded students had been released from the hospital. Seven others were in critical but stable condition, and one was in critical condition.
ORIGINAL STORY:
A shooter who killed two people and wounded nine others at Brown University is from Wisconsin, sources tell CNN and News 3 Now. The detained man in connection with the shooting was identified as 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson of Wisconsin. Erickson was a soldier who had served in a position at Arlington National Cemetery, according to his Linkedln profile. He served as an infantry soldier in the US Army, where he passed sniper training, had experience with firearms instruction and had served as a rifleman. He also received a good conduct medal, participated in “security duties” near the president and assisted with funeral ceremonies at Arlington. Authorities said the person of interest was not a current student at Brown, but law enforcement sources indicated to CNN that he might have been recently enrolled. Erickson took online classes with a focus on psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee after graduating from high school in July 2020, and then transferred to Brown for this fall semester after his military service ended.
