There's Got To Be Something Deeply Embarrassing About The Brown University Shooting

Multiple shot in the area of Brown University. This is an active investigation. Please shelter in place or avoid the area until further notice.

— Providence Police (@ProvidenceRIPD) December 13, 2025

As I post this, it's about 10:30 AM on the East Coast. According to USA Today,

The shooting at the Ivy League University happened shortly before 4:05 p.m. on Saturday in an engineering building with unlocked doors as final exams were underway.

The 4:05 PM time is apparently an error; the Providence Police notification was at 2:33 PM. The teaching assistant who was in the lecture hall and survived the shooting provided more detail:

A Brown University instructor who was leading a final exam review has described the moment of horror that a masked gunman burst into his lecture hall and started shooting.

Joseph Oduro, a 21-year-old teaching assistant, told the New York Times that the gunman shouted “something” before opening fire, but he could not tell what.

Oduro was wrapping up a review session for Principles of Economics when they heard the shooter outside in the hall.

Within moments, a masked man with a rifle appeared in the doorway and opened fire.

Oduro said he and police are still trying to figure out what the attacker said during the shooting.

“That’s what the students and I — and the detectives — have been trying to piece together,” he said.

The poor TA could be in hot water; as a university employee, it sounds like he spoke to the media without going through Brown's press office, and they probably wouldn't have approved this. I hope things work out for him. However, as of yesterday evening, there wasn't even this much available.

🚨 BREAKING: Providence Police says they have NO VIDEO of the Brown University shooter inside the building

Nor do they know how he ENTERED the building, or where he went

HOW? pic.twitter.com/t6s5DRtVZ1

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 14, 2025

A post at Instapundit embeds an X post that I haven't been able to link, in which Brown's president isn't even able to tell what the program was in that classroom. We may infer that this posture is satisfactory to Brown's press office, At least a survivor was able to fill us in on that, though he may pay a price. TAs are expendable.

As of 7:00 AM East Coaat time, a "person of interest" was taken into custody:

Law enforcement says a person of interest connected to the deadly shooting at Brown University was captured at a hotel in Coventry on Sunday morning.

The Providence Police Department confirmed to NBC 10’s Mario Hilario that the person was apprehended at the Hampton Inn in Coventry.

. . . Authorities held a news conference around 7:00 a.m. to confirm that a person of interest was in custody.

The Ivies are major centers of influence for the plutocracy, and they are extremely protective of their image. The fact that so little has been released about the shootings despite the widespread use of surveillance and security technology on university campuses suggests information is being withheld that doesn't fit the received narrative -- a similar thing happened with Brian Cole Jr. I'll continue to follow the story and update this if more information becomes available.

UPDATE: Accoding to an X post that I can't embed, what the shooter yelled before he shot was, "Allahu Akbar!" Was he enrolled at Brown? Was he on a visa?

UPDATE:

Brown University. https://t.co/FfRl2zvJvK

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 14, 2025

UPDATE: Via the UK Daily Mail:

The man arrested in connection to the deadly shooting at Brown University drove from Wisconsin to Rhode Island with a laser-equipped firearm, according to law enforcement.

Aged in his 20s, the unidentified gunman killed two Ivy League students and injured several more before FBI agents snared him at the Hampton Inn hotel in Coventry.

Sources told CNN he drove from Wisconsin to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island - a journey which would have taken around 17 hours.

. . . Police have yet to name the suspected shooter and his motive is unclear.

So they know where he lived, what car he drove, and what name he registered under at the motel, but they can't release any of this.

UPDATE: Via NBC News:

The man detained as a person of interest in the shooting is 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson, three senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation told NBC News.

Authorities are looking into what might be an extensive mental health history for Erickson, the sources said. A connection between Erickson and Brown University is also being investigated, they added.

Why would someone from Wisconsin want to drive 17 hours to a particular lecture hall at Brown University to do his shooting?