Person of interest in Brown University shooting is 24-year-old from Wisconsin, officials say

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The person of interest authorities took into custody in connection with the shooting at Brown University is Benjamin Erickson, a 24-year-old Army veteran originally from Wisconsin, who may recently have lived in D.C., two people briefed on the investigation told The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity. He was taken into custody at a hotel about 15 miles from campus in Providence, authorities said.

Erickson has not been named as a suspect or charged in connection with the Saturday attack, which left two dead and nine wounded. Officials have repeatedly referred to the person in custody as a “person of interest,” a term investigators use to refer to someone whom they wish to question and think has relevant information. Agents recovered two firearms in his possession, including one equipped with a laser sight attachment, one of the people briefed on the investigation said.

A gunman opened fire inside a campus engineering building on Saturday before fleeing, authorities said. A teaching assistant and senior at the university told The Post that he had just wrapped up a study session in the Barus and Holley building when he heard screaming, several loud bangs, and a man dressed in black burst into his room yelling something unintelligible, carrying the “longest gun I’ve ever seen in my life.”

After carrying out the attack, authorities say the shooter was seen leaving the east side of the building where the campus meets downtown Providence, prompting hundreds of officers to conduct a sprawling search overnight.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/14/brown-university-shooting-suspect/