A suspect in the Brown University shooting that left two students dead and nine others wounded has been identified after an ineffectual six-day manhunt, sources tell The Post.
The perpetrator, whom authorities have not publicly named, managed to elude authorities for nearly a week after he opened fire inside a classroom and then escaped into the surrounding streets of Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday.
Authorities are under mounting pressure to track down the ‘organized’ tubby at-large suspect who killed two people and injured nine more in a horror shooting at Brown University.
The bungled response from law enforcement has been widely criticized in the days following the incident on Saturday, including the release of a ‘person of interest’ who was found not to be the killer.
Cops had also previously announced that they had a suspect ‘in custody’ in the aftermath of the killings before walking back the news, and shared conflicting reports of a secondary shooting that were ‘unfounded.’
Now this is a sh*tshow
Umm, why did @BrownUniversity just scrub its entire website of Mustapha Kharbouch (Free Palestine, LGBTQ activist)? pic.twitter.com/GjnJ9vxmjS
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 16, 2025
h/t XC
The first victim of the deadly school shooting at Brown University has been identified as a sophomore student and vice president of the school’s college Republican club, Ella Cook, according to her Alabama parish and a former classmate.
The news of Cook’s death was shared during a service at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in her hometown of Birmingham.
Democrats incited their base to target Conservatives with political violence.
It’s open season on Conservatives now.
Will any Democrat leaders address the violence epidemic on their side?? https://t.co/4xflIqoCNK
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 15, 2025
A 24-year-old man who authorities apprehended in connection with the Brown University mass shooting was released from custody and the real gunman is still at large, authorities announced during a surprise press conference late Sunday night.
Benjamin Erickson was cuffed just before dawn on Sunday at a Hampton Inn hotel near Brown University — but now investigators are saying they had the wrong guy.
The Lib-left were so happy it was a white guy too!
The person of interest in the deadly mass shooting at Brown University has been ID’d as a 24-year-old man from Wisconsin with possible long-standing mental-health issues, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Benjamin Erickson was nabbed at a local hotel room after a gunman opened fire at the Ivy League institution’s Providence, RI, campus during a final-exam study session Saturday.
🚨 BREAKING: Providence authorities are REFUSING to release ANY information about the suspect in custody after the Brown University mass shooting because it could "compromise the investigation or future charges"
Absolutely ZERO updates.
20 hours later. pic.twitter.com/rcv9w47MYQ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 14, 2025
A person of interest is in custody after two people were killed and multiple were injured in a mass shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island yesterday evening.
Police confirmed that a ‘person of interest’ is in custody, as of 6am Sunday morning. Mayor Brett Smiley said that the people of Providence should breathe a ‘small sigh of relief’ today.
The first 911 call reporting shots fired at Brown’s prestigious engineering building was made at 4.05pm on Saturday afternoon, in the midst of students’ end of semester exam season.
More: Brown University shooting ‘person of interest’ arrested after 2 killed, 9 wounded
Still no ID on the Perp however.
h/t PA Cat
Is he a Ninja?
🚨 BREAKING: Video of the alleged Brown University shooter has been RELEASED by Rhode Island authorities
It’s literally someone taking CELL PHONE VIDEO of a computer screen, and all it shows is the dude casually walking away
These people are WILDLY incompetent. COME ON! pic.twitter.com/faJu3DaBhO
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 14, 2025
4+ hours, 800+ cameras and the only description is male wearing all black.
Jack Wrenn (published in his blog, the Brown Daily Herald, and covered by GoLocalProv), reported approximately 800–816 surveillance cameras across the Brown University campus at that time.
That’s… pic.twitter.com/U3qFenRlsn
— The Questionable Gardner (@T_Q_Gardner) December 14, 2025
I’m betting it was Hunter Biden.
From NBC
“Providence police released a brief description of a gunman.
“Preliminarily, all we have is a suspect that was a male dressed in black,” Providence Police Commander Timothy O’Hara, deputy chief of the department, said at a news conference.”
2 dead, 8 critical, Providence mayor says https://t.co/NR1jTEpNAv via @nbcnews
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) December 13, 2025
An alleged gunman remains on the loose in an active shooter situation on the campus of Brown University, school officials said after retracting an announcement that they had arrested a suspect.
The Rhode Island Ivy League school sent out a first alert to students on campus shortly after 4:20 p.m. of an active shooter near the Barus & Holley Engineering school building.
Shooting at Brown University sparks panic with ‘multiple victims’ as students are told to ‘RUN’ or ‘FIGHT’
An active shooter has left ‘multiple casualties’ at Brown University campus as students were urged to ‘run, hide and fight.’
The Ivy League campus in Providence, Rhode Island has been shutdown following reports of a shooting on Saturday evening.
The terrifying incident unfolded near the Barus and Holley Engineering building, according to an alert sent out by the university at 4:22pm local time.
NBC Live updates: Brown University warns of active shooter on campus
BBC Live Feed: Search for suspect under way after shooting on campus, Brown University says
🚨 BREAKING: Officials confirm 2 deceased, 8 in critical condition following mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, RI
Shelter in place is STILL in effect, as police hunt for the “shooter or shooters”
Pray for the victims and their families tonight 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/5tZQoTuoxT
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 13, 2025
Twitter –Brown University
🚨 BREAKING: MASS CASUALTY event declared at Brown University as now a possible 20 VICTIMS reported following an active shooter situation
Several reports that a masked suspect is now IN CUSTODY, thankfully
Say a prayer for these victims. The exact number of deceased versus… pic.twitter.com/6FetYiAHU5
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 13, 2025
🚨 BREAKING: Police respond to an active shooter situation at Brown University in Rhode Island.
Multiple people have been confirmed shot at the university after at least one gunman opened fire. The suspect is still at large.
Situation developing. pic.twitter.com/TuIs0lzkl3
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) December 13, 2025
🚨 BREAKING: Heart-wrenching moment as mother of a student at Brown University’s mass shooting recalls her text exchange with her son
“The first text I get – ‘mom, there’s a live shooting on campus, I’m going to run, I love you.'”
“We’ve only been texting, I’m getting live… pic.twitter.com/gA59fub8rB
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 13, 2025
h/t PA Cat
We are asking schools to act like prisons because we are raising children who behave like inmates. A fight at North Forsyth High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina made headlines in recent days, because what would have once been a routine scuffle amongst teenage boys turned deadly. It was the last altercation of one boy, because a teenager drove a knife into his classmate, causing the wounded boy to stagger away for a few steps before collapsing. He died not long after.
Mass murder is at a low ebb. A new AP/USA Today analysis counts just 17 mass killings — defined as when four or more people are killed, excluding the perpetrator, within 24 hours — in the US so far this year. That pace would make 2025 the quietest year since the database began in 2006.
Although the year is not over — and rare events like these are subject to random fluctuations — it’s not just the AP’s tallies of mass killings that have fallen lately. The Gun Violence Archive has produced counts of “mass murders” and much more broadly defined “mass shootings” which are substantially down from the last few years, too. And perhaps most encouragingly, overall murders in American cities have been steadily dropping, month by month, since 2022.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A mass shooting carried out Saturday by multiple suspects in an unlicensed bar near the South African capital left at least 12 people dead, police said. The victims included three children aged 3, 12 and 16.
Another 13 people were wounded and being treated in the hospital. Police didn’t give details of the ages of those who were injured or their conditions.
Police adjusted the death toll after they said a 12th victim died in the hospital.
#BREAKING: A mass shooting at a bar left at least 11 people, including three children, dead in a township near the South African administrative capital of Pretoria, police said on Saturday. pic.twitter.com/qq5l74tqdE
— LiveNOW from FOX (@livenowfox) December 6, 2025
Children are among four people shot dead in a horrific attack during a birthday party.
The shooting broke out at a banquet hall around 6pm on Saturday night in Stockton, California.
‘Tragedy of this nature is unthinkable and it absolutely breaks our hearts to have loss of life and to have loss of life to children,’ San Joaquin County District Attorney Ron Freitas said.
MORE: At least 4 dead, 10 wounded in mass shooting at California family gathering: officials
At least four people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting at a family gathering on Saturday in Stockton, California, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said.
The shooting occurred around 6 p.m. on the 1900 block of Lucille Avenue, the sheriff’s office reports, which… pic.twitter.com/RG5Sa9lmmb
— Amit Bhardwaj (@AmmyBhardwaj) November 30, 2025
STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA MASS SHOOTING
Breaking -4 killed, several hurt in shooting at birthday party in Stockton
Nov 29,2025
The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that reportedly occurred Saturday evening in the 1900 block of Lucile Avenue in the… pic.twitter.com/ifKN3xQenN
— Abhay (@AstuteGaba) November 30, 2025
To see data on the worst mass shootings of 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, click here.
The number of mass shootings with three or more fatalities is way down in 2025. There are still a large number of mass shootings with four or more victims each week. However, most have between 0-2 fatalities.
h/t kiki9
