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The person of interest in the deadly mass shooting at Brown University has been ID’d as a 24-year-old man from Wisconsin who served in the Army and supported statehood for DC, law-enforcement sources told The Post.Benjamin Erickson was nabbed before dawn Sunday at a Hampton Inn in Coventry, RI, after an 11-hour manhunt following a gunman opening fire at the Ivy League institution’s Providence campus during a final-exam study session Saturday.Erickson, who is originally from Wisconsin, has lived in an apartment in Washington, DC, since 2024, with his voter registry showing a “statehood” party affiliation, according to public records.
The shooting happened around 4:30 p.m. during a final exam review session at the Ivy League university for an economics class run by Rachel Friedberg, who also serves as a faculty associate of the school’s Program in Judaic Studies. Friedberg’s research specifically focuses on economic impacts of immigrants in the US and Israel, with the professor previously serving four years on the faculty of the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, according to Brown.
Providence officials announced that they will release a person of interest from custody, as the search for the Brown University gunman continues.Speaking to reporters Sunday night, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said that the man who was arrested at a hotel in Coventry will be released from custody.
Providence police officials in Rhode Island on Tuesday provide an update on their investigation into a mass shooting at Brown University over the weekend, which killed two students and injured nine others.The two students who were killed in the shooting on Saturday have been identified as Ella Cook and Muhammad Aziz Umurzakov. One shooting victim remains in critical condition, two have been discharged from the hospital and the six others are in stable conditions, according to CNN.Authorities are still hunting for the perpetrator of the deadly mass shooting, ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Authorities have identified the suspect in Saturday's mass shooting at Brown University, which left two students dead and nine injured during a finals week review session.His name is Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, according to Providence police. He was found dead Thursday evening, authorities announced at a press briefing Thursday evening, after law enforcement officers in tactical gear were seen outside a storage unit linked to him in Salem, New Hampshire, for hours.Neves-Valente, 48, was a Portuguese national and studied at Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001 to study physics, according to Brown President Christina Paxson. But he went on a leave of absence and ultimately withdrew in 2003.
