IVY LEAGUE NIGHTMARE: Campus Turns to Crime Scene as Killer Evades Capture
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The hallowed grounds of Brown University, an Ivy League institution synonymous with scholarly pursuit, were violently transformed into a sprawling crime scene Saturday evening after a gunman opened fire during a final exam review session, killing two students and injuring nine others. As of early Sunday, a massive manhunt involving over 400 local, state, and federal officers is still underway for the suspected shooter, described only as a man in dark clothing in his 30s, who remains at large. The attack triggered an immediate and terrifying campus-wide lockdown, with frantic students sheltering in darkened gyms and dormitories, receiving vague official updates while relying on each other for whispered information about the unfolding horror just outside their doors. President Donald Trump has been briefed on the shooting, underscoring the national gravity of an attack that has shattered the sense of security within one of America’s most prestigious academic enclaves.
The campus remains paralyzed under an ongoing shelter-in-place order, with a defined perimeter cordoned off by law enforcement. For the hundreds of students trapped within, like Lydell Dyer who described huddling with 154 others in a darkened gym, the night stretched into an agonizing vigil with no end in sight. University alerts instruct those in the locked-down zone that they will remain in place until personally escorted to safety by police, a chilling directive that has extended the trauma for hours. As the FBI and Providence police plead for public information, the Brown University community—and the nation—braces for the grim daylight that will reveal the full scope of a tragedy that has irrevocably stained a sanctuary of learning with violence and loss.
