Public safety incident
Details
Event title
United States - Brown University shooting suspect taken into custody at Coventry, RI hotel
Source
Main event
Event date (UTC)
2025-12-14 20:21:24
Last update (UTC)
2025-12-14 20:21:24
Severity
Low
Area range
Local event
Address/Affected area(s)
Brown University, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
The person of interest in the horrific shooting at Brown University that left 2 dead and 9 injured was taken into custody at a Hampton Inn in Coventry, Rhode Island.
Investigators could be seen going in and out of the hotel through a side door to collect evidence.
CNN shared video of heavily armed officers and agents inside the hotel, where guests were awoken to a chaotic scene on Sunday morning.
“This morning I woke up, came downstairs, and said ‘What are these cops doing here?’ There were FBI, marshals, local police, I said, ‘Something must be going on,” said hotel guest Mark Lafountaine. “The way they were parked, I knew something was going on.”
The FBI and Coventry and Providence police did not immediately respond to a requests for information.