[IsraelTimes] A person detained over the shooting that killed two students at Brown University is to be released, US officials say, adding the manhunt has resumed for a suspect.
A shooter opened fire on Saturday at the elite Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island, in a building where exams were taking place, triggering a campus lockdown and launching an hours-long hunt for the suspect.
US authorities early on Sunday detained a person of interest in the mass shooting that also wounded nine others, the latest in a long line of school attacks in the United States.
Brown University President Christina Paxson confirmed in a letter to community members that all 11 victims were students.
“Shortly, we will be releasing the person of interest who had been detained earlier today,” Providence Mayor Brett Smiley says.
“I think it’s fair to say there’s no basis to consider him a person of interest,” Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha tells reporters. “That’s why he’s being released.” |