Person of Interest Detained in Brown Shooting;

Following a tip shared by the Providence Police Department, brokers from the FBI’s Boston workplace and local law enforcement detained a “person of interest” in Coventry, Rhode Island, associated to Saturday’s capturing at Brown University that left two useless and 9 injured.

Officials held two press conferences Sunday; at the first they said that the individual of curiosity was in their 30s, but at the second modified that to say they’re in their 20s. Investigators refused to release that individual’s gender or race.

🚨#UPDATE: A “person of interest” is in custody in the Brown University mass capturing but police gained’t release age, gender, race, or motive.

That’s not defending an investigation.
That’s defending a narrative.

Release the small print.

The public deserves the reality. pic.twitter.com/xfyMNybgbh

— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) December 14, 2025

It’s not yet recognized if the individual is affiliated with Brown University.

READ MORE: Video of Brown University Shooting Suspect Released; 2 Dead, 9 Injured After Campus Shooting

FBI Director Kash Patel issued a assertion on X describing how the individual was apprehended and the sources the FBI has deployed.

An update on the @FBI response at Brown University:@FBIBoston established a command post to consumption, develop and analyze leads, and run them to ground.

We activated the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team, to present crucial geolocation capabilities.

As a end result, early… pic.twitter.com/KONDEbrduR

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 14, 2025

Patel wrote: 

An update on the @FBI response at Brown University:

@FBIBoston established a command post to consumption, develop and analyze leads, and run them to ground.

We activated the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team, to present crucial geolocation capabilities. 

As a end result, early this morning, FBI Boston’s Safe Streets Task Force, with help from the @USMarshalsHQ & the @Coventry_RI_PD, detained a individual of curiosity in a resort room in Coventry, RI, based off a lead by the @ProvidenceRIPD. 

We have deployed local and national sources to course of and reconstruct the capturing scene – offering HQ and Lab parts on scene.

We set up a digital media consumption portal to ingest pictures and video from the public associated to this incident.

And the FBI’s sufferer specialists are totally integrating with our companions to present sources to victims and survivors of this horrific violence.

This FBI will continue an all out 24/7 marketing campaign until justice is totally served.

Thanks to the boys and girls of the FBI and our companions for their continued teamwork. Please continue praying for the victims and their households – as effectively as all those at Brown University.

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said that one of the 9 injured has been discharged from the hospital, one is in crucial but steady condition, and that seven are in steady condition, including:

“Our two priorities as of last night were to, one, bring the individual responsible to justice and that investigation is ongoing, although we have a meaningful update that we’ve just provided. Two, is our concern for the victims who, as I mentioned, are still – most of whom are still hospitalized. That remains our priority right now,” 

Brown pupil Ben Marcus was at Brown’s Hillel when the capturing occurred, and said he spent the night time “shuttling students back and forth to their dorms.” In an look on Fox & Friends, Marcus shared his expertise.

“I was celebrating Shabbat…all of a sudden, it wasn’t over yet, the security guard leaped into action. He said, everyone, upstairs.

“None of us had been on our telephones. The security guard at the Hillel building just leaped into motion, and he said, ‘Everyone upstairs, this is basically severe. There’s a shooter.

“I actually lost a very good friend of mine… I don’t think her name is public yet,” he said. But she was a actually, actually particular individual… actually wonderful at creating dialogue and interfaith actions, and we’ll actually miss her.”

🇺🇸 — WATCH: Jewish Brown University senior Ben Marcus was on Fox news, and said he’s been up all night after the mass shooting, “shuttling college students back and forth to their dorms.”

“I used to be celebrating Shabbat…all of a sudden, it wasn’t over yet, none of us had been on our telephones,… pic.twitter.com/8cjNokjtQq

— Belaaz News (@TheBelaaz) December 14, 2025

According to an AP report, the shooter fired more than 40 rounds from a 9mm handgun.

“Armed with a handgun, the shooter fired more than 40 9mm rounds, according to a law enforcement official. Authorities as of Sunday morning hadn’t recovered a gun but did recover two loaded 30-round magazines, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.”

The capturing occurred in the classroom of economics professor Rachel Friedberg, “whose research focuses on the intersection of economics and Jewish Studies.” Friedberg wasn’t in the classroom, which she described as a large auditorium with stadium seating, at the time; a educating assistant was in the room as college students reviewed materials for the upcoming last.

Oh. The capturing occurred in the classroom of Professor Rachel Friedberg…who is Jewish, half of the Program in Judaic Studies, and whose research focuses on the intersection of economics and Jewish Studies?

That looks like it may be extremely related. https://t.co/BFWCBkLsOe pic.twitter.com/BigBSx9L6i

— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) December 14, 2025

At this time there’s no indication that Friedberg was an supposed goal or that the shooter was motivated by antisemitism, but given the rise in antisemitic violence globally it must be famous.

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