by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News December 14, 2025
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley announced that police had released “a person of interest,” in the Brown University shooting but the investigation remains ongoing and fully active across all agencies.
“We know that this is likely to cause fresh anxiety for our community. And we want to reiterate what we said earlier, which remains true… we have not received any credible or specific threats to the Providence community,” the mayor said.
“And so the status of safety in our community remains unchanged. And we believe that you remain safe in our community.”
The shooting on Saturday left two students dead and nine others wounded.
FBI Director Kash Patel had said agents used “geolocation capabilities” to help authorities track down a “person of interest” in the deadly shooting at the Ivy League college.
Patel wrote in a post to X that the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team provided critical “geolocation capabilities” that helped FBI Boston’s Safe Streets Task Force, U.S. Marshals, and Coventry Police Department detain the person of interest at a hotel room in Coventry.
“Right now, the investigation continues to progress extremely fast,” Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said. “We’re in the process of collecting evidence and seizing items that we need to seize, search locations that we need to search.”
Authorities are not seeking other suspects at this point, Perez said, though police were still investigating.
The shooter was armed with a handgun and fired more than 40 9mm rounds, according to authorities.
The shooting happened inside a classroom in the Barus and Holley engineering building.
Brown University President Christina Paxson confirmed that all victims in the shooting on Saturday are students.
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