Person of Interest in Brown University Shooting

Now that law enforcement has detained a particular person of curiosity, the investigation into Saturday’s mass-shooting at Brown University appears to have moved into overdrive. RedState’s Jen van Laar lined the latest developments earlier Sunday, reporting that a “person of interest” had been taken into custody at a lodge in Coventry, Rhode Island, which is about 15 miles southeast of the Brown campus. Per Jen, brokers from the Boston FBI discipline workplace adopted a tip from the Providence Police Department and that led them to the lodge in Coventry in the early hours of Sunday morning.

NBC News is now reporting that a number of “senior law enforcement officials” have confirmed to them that the particular person taken into custody at the lodge is a 24-year-old man from Wisconsin by the identify of Benjamin Erickson.

NBC News: Three senior law enforcement officers briefed on the investigation say the person police have in custody in connection with the Brown University lively shooter incident has been recognized as:

Benjamin Erickson
DOB: 8/10/01

Reported w/ @jonathan4ny

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) December 14, 2025

In a subsequent tweet, Tom Winter of NBC News revealed that Benjamin Erickson could have an “extensive mental health history” and law enforcement officers are still trying for ties between Erickson and Brown University.

MORE: Law enforcement officers say they’re trying into what is likely to be an intensive mental health historical past for Erickson.They say they’re also trying into a doable connection to Brown University.

It’s also being reported that Erickson once served in the 201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade.

Sources have confirmed some of the main points around Erickson’s arrest. FBI Director Kash Patel said authorities tracked their particular person of curiosity utilizing cellphone geolocation data. “Thanks to the men and women of the FBI and our partners for their continued teamwork. Please continue praying for the victims and their families — as well as all those at Brown University,” Patel said in a assertion. 

It’s also been revealed that a “unique handgun laser light” helped officers nail the suspect.

A revolver — and a small handgun geared up with a particular laser gentle —  was discovered in the lodge room of a man now thought-about a “particular person of curiosity’’ in the horrific case, according to sources and GWN. 

Asked where he’d been Saturday, the person claimed he’d been in his room the entire time, GWN said.

Once inside the lodge room, police allegedly discovered two weapons. According to one account, “Law-enforcement sources previously told the Associated Press that the gunman in the Brown shooting was armed with a handgun and fired more than 40 .9mm rounds when he stormed a classroom during a review for an economics exam.”

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While it is not yet identified if there may be any significant connection between Erickson and Brown University, it has been confirmed that the category he focused was the Principles of Economics, which is taught by Professor Rachel Friedberg. Friedberg was not current for the examine session, but her educating assistant confirmed that he and a number of college students hid behind a classroom desk in the harrowing moments after the taking pictures started.

Two college students had been killed during the rampage, and another 9 sustained accidents. Many of the injured stay hospitalized as of Sunday night.

In a considerably weird twist, one consumer on X famous that Benjamin Erickson was two days older than one of the gunmen concerned in the Bondi Beach bloodbath that focused Jews celebrating the start of Chanukah. 

(EDITOR’S NOTE: An earlier model of this article recognized Erickson as a suspect in the taking pictures. Law enforcement officers have acknowledged that the particular person detained is a “person of interest” and not a suspect at this time.)

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