Coventry police aid FBI in Brown University manhunt

COVENTRY, R.I. — Coventry Police assisted the FBI in detaining a person of interest in connection with the deadly Brown University shooting around 3:45 a.m. Sunday at the Hampton Inn on Center of New England Boulevard. Authorities say the individual is now being transported to Providence.

The shooting occurred Saturday afternoon around 4 p.m. inside Barus and Holley, an engineering building on Brown University’s campus, where students were studying for final exams. Two students were killed and at least nine others were injured, all of them students, according to university officials. Several victims remain in critical condition, yet stable condition, while one student has been treated and released. The Brown campus and surrounding Providence neighborhoods were placed under a shelter-in-place order for several hours as police and first responders conducted an extensive search.