Elite Ivy League campus latest to grapple with mass shooting as violence erupts at Brown University

Brown University became the latest field responding to a wide shooting erstwhile astatine slightest 2 radical were killed and 8 others were wounded Saturday during finals week astatine the elite Rhode Island Ivy League institution.

A shelter-in-place bid was issued and streets were blocked disconnected successful effect to the shooting arsenic constabulary proceed to hunt for a antheral suspect.

"This is simply a profoundly tragic time for Brown, our families and our section community. There are genuinely nary words that tin explicit the heavy sorrow we are feeling for the victims of the shooting that took spot contiguous astatine the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building," Brown University President Christina H. Paxson said successful a connection to the field community.

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"This is simply a time that we hoped ne'er would travel to our community. It is profoundly devastating for each of us. We are grateful to instrumentality enforcement for their contiguous effect and their ongoing enactment to guarantee the information of our community. Please proceed to instrumentality each steps to beryllium safe," the connection added.

Rhode Island Hospital is successful lockdown but is inactive accepting exigency section patients.

President Donald Trump said helium has been briefed connected the shooting.

"What a unspeakable happening it is," the president said. "All we tin bash close present is commune for the victims and for those that were precise severely hurt, it looks like. ... We'll pass you aboriginal arsenic to what's happening, but it's a shame. Let's conscionable pray."

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Ambulances astatine Brown University amid an progressive shooter incident. (Andrea Margolis/Fox News Digital)

Brown University, an Ivy League schoolhouse founded successful 1764, is simply a starring nonprofit probe assemblage successful Providence, Rhode Island.

The instauration has much than 11,000 students and 5,500 employees, including adjacent to 900 regular faculty.

Brown University’s endowment is $8 billion, making it among the wealthiest institutions successful the country.

The shooting Saturday was conscionable the astir caller shooting connected a U.S. assemblage campus.

A inferior Brown University pupil told Fox News Digital helium was barricaded successful a assemblage gathering during the shooting, called 911 and waited astir 2 hours earlier constabulary arrived.

"They brought america down into a basement bureau abstraction with a fewer 100 radical and person been sweeping the gathering getting groups of radical arsenic they telephone 911 and pass them of their location," the pupil said. "We’re proceeding beauteous daunting numbers, and radical are each checking successful connected their friends."

A instrumentality enforcement authoritative walks past articles of covering connected a sidewalk adjacent an entranceway to Brown University during the probe of a shooting. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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On Tuesday, a shooting astatine Kentucky State University killed 1 pupil and critically injured another.

There were besides different shootings connected assemblage campuses earlier this year, including the assassination of blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk during a September lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University and a shooting astatine Florida State University successful April successful which 2 radical were killed and 7 were wounded.