Police are searching for a gunman who shot dead two students and injured nine others at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Police say the attacker was a man dressed all in black who fled on foot, and a shelter-in-place warning is in effect for the area surrounding the prestigious university. The attack on the campus brings the number of mass shootings in the US to 389 for this year, according to the independent analysis website Gun Violence Archive. It defines mass shootings as having four or more victims killed or injured, not including the attacker. Barus and Holley engineering building is a seven-story block that includes 117 laboratories, dozens of classrooms and three lecture halls. An economics professor told local public media outlet Ocean State Radio that the shooting had taken place during a review session for her course, which was led by her teaching assistant. “He said that the shooter came in the doors, yelled something – he couldn’t remember what he yelled – and started shooting,” Rachel Friedberg said. “Students started to scramble to try to get away from the shooter, trying to get lower down in the stadium seating, and people got shot,” she added.
via bbc: What we know so far about the Brown University shooting